December 20, 2022
New Immune Target to Treat Cardiovascular Disease Discovered
Salim Hayek, MD has uncovered a protein produced by the immune system which offers the promise of new treatment of heart disease.
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December 19, 2022
Blood-Based Metabolic Signature Outperforms Standard Method for Predicting Diet, Disease Risk
Venkatesh Murthy, MD, PhD and colleagues use machine learning techniques to more accurately predict diet and risk of cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes.
December 15, 2022
Most Older Adults Are Wary of Mixing Health Care and Religion or Spirituality
"But a sizable majority of all older adults, whether or not they say belief is important to them, reported that they’d turn to health care workers to help them find deeper meaning in their illness," said Adam Marks, MD, MPH.
December 13, 2022
No Advantage to Medicare Advantage Seen in Heart Attack Survival
John Ayanian, MD, MPP and colleagues compare 30-day mortality and treatment for Medicare Advantage and traditional Medicare patients with acute myocardial infarction.
December 9, 2022
Surges in Flu, RSV, and COVID Threaten the Holidays
Preeti Malani, MD, MS, MSJ discusses the surge of seasonal respiratory viruses, COVID, and flu during the holidays and what you can do to reduce the risk.
December 6, 2022
Wide Variance Described in Lab Monitoring of Conventional Synthetic DMARDs
Puja Khanna, MD, MPH comments on the importance of medication monitoring and the standardized medication- and disease-based monitoring protocols that were established at Michigan Medicine.
December 2, 2022
How to Discuss Health Care and End-of-Life Wishes During the Holidays
Phillip Rodgers, MD discusses taking the opportunity when your family is together at the holidays to talk about health care and end-of-life wishes with your loved ones.
November 30, 2022
Death, Hospital Readmission More Likely for Black Patients After Coronary Stenting
Stephanie Spehar, MD; Devraj Sukul, MD, MS; and team reveal that social determinants of health in the outpatient setting played a key role in the disparity.
November 28, 2022
Liquid Biopsies Could Predict Survival Odds for Patients with Metastatic Cancer
Zachery Reichert, MD, PhD and team find that measuring the proportion of DNA in the bloodstream that comes from a tumor may be able to guide treatment discussions.
November 21, 2022
Dietary Change Starves Cancer Cells, Overcoming Treatment Resistance
Yatrik Shah, PhD and team find that a low protein diet could enhance standard treatment for colon cancer.
November 17, 2022
Sugar Alcohols Are in Many Sugar-Free Foods. What Are They?
William Chey, MD discusses how sugar alcohols are processed by the gut and the gastrointestinal symptoms that can occur.
November 15, 2022
Study Hints At Why Older People Are More Susceptible to the Flu
U-M researchers investigate why cells called alveolar macrophages, the first line of defense in the lungs, appear to be compromised with age.
November 11, 2022
What to Know About Bariatric Surgery for Type 2 Diabetes
Andrew Kraftson, MD discusses bariatric surgery and how it can benefit people with type 2 diabetes who meet the surgery criteria.
November 9, 2022
New Gene Found Suppressed in Scleroderma Brings Potential Target for Treatment
John Varga, MD and team discover a gene that plays a crucial role in the scarring that occurs in patients with scleroderma.
November 3, 2022
U-M Health Vasculitis Program: Hoping to Impact Individual Patients and the Approach to the Diseases
Ora Singer, MD, who directs the Vasculitis Program with Julia Ford, MD, discusses the progress the program has made since its launch in 2021 and goals for the future.
November 1, 2022
One in 10 Older Americans Has Dementia
Kenneth Langa, MD, PhD; Deborah Levine, MD, MPH; and colleagues find that people with dementia and mild cognitive impairment are more likely to be older, have lower levels of education, and to be racialized as Black or Hispanic.
October 27, 2022
Wearable Device May Improve At-Home Temperature Monitoring of Children with Cancer
Muneesh Tewari, MD, PhD discusses his study that evaluated the use of a high-frequency monitoring device to detect fever in pediatric patients with cancer being monitored at home.
October 26, 2022
Potential Therapy Derived from a Banana Protein Works Against SARS-CoV-2
David Markovitz, MD and colleagues discover that the potential therapy is effective against every type of coronavirus in an animal model.
October 24, 2022
How Can Health Care Professionals Help Prevent and Treat Diabetic Neuropathy?
Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD shares insights about caring for patients with peripheral and autonomic neuropathy.
October 21, 2022
Hypoglycemia Beliefs May Impact Outcomes in People with Type 1 Diabetes
Yu Kuei Alex Lin, MD and colleagues find that people’s beliefs about hypoglycemia play an important role in their hypoglycemia outcomes, even when they are using advanced diabetes technologies.
