Primary Care at a Crossroads: Experts Call for Change
Two teams from the Divisions of General Medicine and Hospital Medicine, led by Laurence McMahon, MD, MPH and Tanner Caverly, MD, MPH, look at issues currently facing primary care practitioners.
Two teams from the Divisions of General Medicine and Hospital Medicine, led by Laurence McMahon, MD, MPH and Tanner Caverly, MD, MPH, look at issues currently facing primary care practitioners.
Michael Heung, MD, MS discusses fluid management in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).
Jeffrey Kullgren, MD, MPH, MS discusses the results from the latest National Poll on Healthy Aging that surveyed a national sample of adults age 50–80 about their experiences related to telehealth visits.
Lei Yin, PhD co-leads a new study that finds that mice lacking the transcription factor E 4 BP 4 were protected against diet’s damaging effects.
Julia Chen, MD co-authors an article that looks at how the telephone could be a tool in treating many patients who do not have computers or computer know-how.
Debbie Chen, MD and Megan Haymart, MD find that up to one-third of physicians are sending patients for a thyroid ultrasound for reasons not supported by clinical care guidelines.
A team led by Robert Dickson, MD found that COVID patients who are administered oxygen, a universal therapy, may have unintended consequences from the microbiome.
Preeti Malani, MD, infectious disease expert and chief health officer for the University of Michigan, interviewed by the New York Times about how to minimize the health risks on and around campuses this fall.
Roma Gianchandani, MD, first author of a new Diabetes paper, developed a tool to identify and manage high blood sugar in patients with COVID-19.
Adam Lauring, MD, PhD describes the science behind the most promising vaccines for the coronavirus pandemic.
Karandeep Singh, MD, MMSc discusses COVID apps and wearables and the current challenges associated with them.
Stephen Dowker, EMT and Brahmajee Nallamothu, MD, MPH share updates that are coming to improve pre-hospital communication systems, and what patients and clinicians can expect.
Thomas Valley, MD, MSc discusses his study that looked at changes to visitation policies and communication practices in Michigan intensive care units as a result of COVID.
Hallie Prescott, MD, MSc and Jake McSparron, MD discuss the multiple issues that patients with COVID-19 may face after being discharged from the hospital.
Matthias Kretzler, MD and team receive a grant to study the therapeutic potential of anti-interleukin 6 agents to treat kidney cells in COVID-19 patients.
A Michigan Medicine team, led by Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD; Crystal Holmes, DPM, CWS; and Brian Schmidt, DPM, investigate biomarkers to improve how foot ulcers are treated and healed.
Joshi Alumkal, MD finds good tolerability and encouraging efficacy data for the pan-BET bromodomain inhibitor in combination with enzalutamide.
Anna Lok, MD compares rates of cirrhosis, cardiovascular disease, and metabolic abnormalities between patients with fatty liver disease who are of normal weight and overweight or obese.
Grace Jenq, MD discusses the benefits of two new Michigan Medicine programs, Hospital Care at Home and Patient Monitoring at Home.
MeiLan Han, MD, MS comments on recent studies showing that a significant number of people with COVID-19, who do not have symptoms or have yet to develop them, are still capable of transmitting the virus.