Drug Deaths Down
EMS responded to 521 overdoses in 2023, up from 458 the year before. Yet deaths were down, from a...
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Fired for CBD
“Do you have a medical marijuana card?” asked a woman from HireRight, the company the U-M uses for...
Read MoreCalls & Letters | Jan. 2024
To the editor: Your story in the December 2023 issue, Hospital Headwinds, was a missed opportunity to detail the tremendous impact of the University of Michigan Health specialty pharmacy program. Expanding our pharmacy will...
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The Rise of Interventional Radiology
As the child of two surgeons growing up in a loving family in Nagpur, India, Shantanu...
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Hospital Headwinds
Over the past two decades, Michigan Medicine has grown increasingly dependent on a controversial...
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Mental Health Matters
Note: This article includes details about individuals who have taken their own lives. If you or...
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Fresh Start
Following a rocky post-pandemic recovery, the Fresh Start clubhouse for adults dealing with mental...
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Cancer Prescription
“We don’t have a crystal ball for any one patient,” says U-M oncologist Greg Kalemkerian. “That’s...
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Health Care Crunch
To prevent gaps in coverage during Covid, the federal government ordered state health agencies to...
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Healthy Vending
Walking into Michigan Medicine’s West Ann Arbor Health Center, one of the first things patients...
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Research Return
A $57 million construction project is taking the moribund Ann Arbor Research Park back to its...
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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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