The U-M Dental Clinic
In 2003, when my husband started freelancing, we lost our dental insurance. So we tried the U-M...
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Long 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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Getting Tested
“No testing kits,” the sign at the Westgate Rite Aid read the January morning Bonnie...
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Covid Just Keeps Coming
The virus celebrated the New Year with the highest local death toll of the pandemic: twenty-two...
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Hospital Overload
“Covid-19 is overrunning our hospitals,” Michigan Medicine CEO Marschall Runge warned...
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Paramedics Needed
HVA needs 185 paramedics and emergency medical technicians to fully staff its Washtenaw County...
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The Next Unicorn?
Workit Health is on a fast track to become only the third Ann Arbor-based “unicorn”...
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Nightmare at the Psych ER
I lived through a nightmare at the U-M Psychiatric Emergency Room. The pandemic made it worse, but...
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Karen’s Trail
Completing the Border-to-Border Trail was not on the radar of Karen McKeachie and her husband, Lew...
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