Michigan Medicine

We build on our previous findings to explore innovative methods for understanding, diagnosing, treating, managing, and preventing various human diseases. Our goal is also to address and lessen inequalities wherever they exist.

National

English

Online/Digital

Outlet metrics

Domain Authority

Ranking

Global

#103080

United States

#30299

Health/Medicine

#321

Traffic sources

Monthly visitors

Articles

From the Diag to the world: 175 years of U-M medical history

3 days ago | michiganmedicine.org | Kara Gavin

Millions of times a year, patients travel from every county of Michigan and beyond to seek care at the hospitals and clinics of Michigan Medicine, the University of Michigan’s academic medical center. Thousands of future and new doctors, nurses, biomedical scientists and other health professionals prepare for their careers in its classrooms, labs and clinical spaces. Countless discoveries about human health and disease spring from U-M research studies.
Heat wave survival tips from a U-M emergency physician

1 week ago | michiganmedicine.org | Kara Gavin

Brad Uren, M.D., has seen what heat can do to a person. He’s treated countless patients for heat-related illness in the emergency department at U-M Health – including many who didn’t realize that their age, health or prescription medication put them at higher risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. That’s why he loves to share his top tips for staying cool during a heat wave. These tips apply to anyone, regardless of their risk level.
Heat wave survival tips from an emergency physician

1 week ago | michiganmedicine.org | Kara Gavin

Brad Uren, M.D., has seen what heat can do to a person. He’s treated countless patients for heat-related illness in the emergency department at University of Michigan Health – including many who didn’t realize that their age, health or prescription medication put them at higher risk of heat exhaustion and heat stroke. That’s why he loves to share his top tips for staying cool during a heat wave. These tips apply to anyone, regardless of their risk level.
Living near harmful algal blooms reduces life expectancy with ALS

1 week ago | michiganmedicine.org | Noah Fromson

Living close to cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms — which are present nationwide but are more common in coastal and Great Lakes states — heightens the rate of dying from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, a study suggests. These blooms occur when cyanobacteria, also called blue-green algae, grows dense and out of control, producing toxic agents that can poison people and the environment.
Researchers uncover novel mechanism that leads to high blood pressure

2 weeks ago | michiganmedicine.org | Noah Fromson

When someone has high blood pressure, or hypertension, it results in changes to the walls of their blood vessels. This process is known as arterial or vascular remodeling, which is driven by smooth muscle cells in the blood vessel wall.
What makes someone leave a Medicare Advantage plan?

3 weeks ago | michiganmedicine.org | Kara Gavin

More than half of older Americans now get their Medicare coverage through an insurance company’s Medicare Advantage plan. But many go on to switch plans or even leave for traditional Medicare when Open Enrollment comes around each autumn. Researchers have had a hard time getting access to data that could help them understand what drives these changes, which have major implications for federal spending on Medicare as well as individuals’ health.
Medical School recognized for preserving history

3 weeks ago | michiganmedicine.org | Kara Gavin

The University of Michigan Medical School's effort to celebrate its history, including the preservation of a century-old building on U-M's main medical campus, has won recognition from Ann Arbor's Historic District Commission. The school is celebrating its 175th anniversary in 2025. The Simpson Memorial Institute building, constructed beginning in 1925, stands on Observatory Street at the top of Ann Street, near the Frankel Cardiovascular Center.
University of Michigan team leads first in-human recording with new wireless brain-computer interface

4 weeks ago | michiganmedicine.org | Noah Fromson

ANN ARBOR, Mich. – A research team at University of Michigan completed the first in-human recording from a novel, wireless brain-computer interface. This technology aims to restore essential functions lost due to injury or disease.
What will it take to reduce primary care doctor burnout?

1 month ago | michiganmedicine.org | Kara Gavin

The third of the studies shows the power of teamwork in handling patient messages, by creating a framework for medical assistants, nurses of different training levels, and physicians to use to address in-basket messages more efficiently and effectively. All the authors are from the Division of General Medicine in the Department of Internal Medicine at U-M Health, which runs multiple primary care clinics across southeast Michigan for adults and mixed populations of children and adults.
Mediterranean diet provides symptom relief for patients with IBS in pilot study

1 month ago | michiganmedicine.org | Sam Page

A pilot study from Michigan Medicine researchers found that the Mediterranean diet may provide symptom relief for people with irritable bowel syndrome. Study participants were randomized into two groups, one following the Mediterranean diet and the other following the low FODMAP diet, a common restrictive diet for IBS. In the Mediterranean diet group, 73% of the patients met the primary endpoint for symptom improvement, versus 81.8% in the low FODMAP group.