Research Return
A $57 million construction project is taking the moribund Ann Arbor Research Park back to its...
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Health
Ringing the Good Luck Bell
The nurses, techs, clerks, and advanced practice providers all eagerly gather at the end of the...
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Good News/Bad News
It should have been the best of news for the Ann Arbor–based biotech company. On March 4, the New...
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The Ascent of Planet Rock
If you live in Michigan and want to go rock climbing, there’s really only one good option: Leave...
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Scott Carter
Yoga instructor Scott Carter sits by the front window of TeaHaus on a recent winter afternoon with...
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An Afternoon with Community Mental Health
It’s a quiet Friday afternoon in January on the fourth floor of the County Annex on N. Fourth Ave....
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Listening to Ketamine
The sign for Michigan Progressive Health on Washtenaw Ave. shows a smile superimposed on a...
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Pulling the Goalie
When Hiag Avsharian closed the door to his room at an Ann Arbor fertility clinic, making a movie...
Read MoreA Sukkot Miracle
I came across my breast cancer goody bag the other day. The surgeon’s scheduler gave it to me five years ago, after we reviewed the pre-op paperwork. You may wonder: “What goes into a breast cancer goody bag?” It’s kind of like,...
Read MoreAbortion Refugees
With the Supreme Court’s June reversal of Roe v. Wade, the decision that legalized abortion nationwide, existing state bans and restrictions went back into effect. Though Michigan, too, has an abortion ban on the books, courts...
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The U-M Dental Clinic
In 2003, when my husband started freelancing, we lost our dental insurance. So we tried the U-M...
Read MoreLong Covid
It’s called “Long Covid,” and Smith is a member of a particularly susceptible population. In a new U-M study, one in four women reported symptoms lasting more than ninety days, compared to one in six men. “I didn’t need to be...
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The Lonely Death of Stadium Steve
A heavy rain was falling at 4 a.m. on March 30. Even with streetlights roughly every hundred feet...
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Overdose Deaths Rise Again
As recently as twenty years ago, the county saw only a few heroin deaths a year—mostly older men...
Read MoreHeart Attack, Meet Covid
Yet compared to last winter’s Delta variant surge, Omicron’s spring visit was mild. In Delta’s worst week in January, twenty-one county residents died of Covid-19. In May and early June, the death toll never exceeded three a...
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Abortion after Roe
Briere, now retired to California, is speaking of the leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion that...
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St. Joe’s Rebrands
In April, St. Joe’s parent, Trinity Health Michigan, announced that it would consolidate branding...
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Living with Lung Cancer
On the last Sunday in November 2021, I was directed to a freezing-cold trailer adjacent to St....
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Drug Overdose?
GlaxoSmithKline delivered the bad news in February: as of April 1, it was cutting Michigan...
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Getting Tested
Getting tested: “No testing kits,” the sign at the Westgate Rite Aid read the January morning...
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