Michiganders: It’s time for “spring cleaning” in your medicine cabinet
Across Michigan on Saturday, April 30, 29 sites will accept prescription medications including opioids through an effort coordinated by Michigan OPEN.
Across Michigan on Saturday, April 30, 29 sites will accept prescription medications including opioids through an effort coordinated by Michigan OPEN.
Arul M. Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., was awarded the 2022 Sjöberg Prize by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, which also awards Nobel Prizes. Chinnaiyan is being honored for the discovery of recurrent gene fusions in prostate cancer, a groundbreaking finding initially published in 2005 that has led to a better understanding of how prostate cancer develops and improved methods to detect the disease.
On Saturday, Oct 23, Michigan residents in 16 counties have a chance to get opioids and other unused and expired prescription medications out of their medicine cabinets through 36 simultaneous events held around the state.
U-M will launch a new Institute for Firearm Injury Prevention to generate knowledge and advance innovative solutions that reduce firearm injury, a public health crisis that leads to more than 100 deaths per day across the United States.
The University of Michigan Board of Regents has approved the renaming of the U-M Depression Center for Frances and Kenneth Eisenberg and their family, in recognition of their transformational $30 million total giving to depression research and scholarship.
The season of giving has once again arrived in Michigan. But this one comes amid a surging pandemic, an economic downturn, and a looming deadline for continuation of federal financial relief. All of these have created intense need in communities surrounding Michigan Medicine. In response, the University of Michigan’s academic medical center will launch a third effort to encourage its own team, and the local community, to give food and funds to support Food Gatherers.
New grants totaling more than $15 million will amplify the University of Michigan’s ability to conduct research on aging and to help identify and address issues facing older adults today and into the future.
Michigan Medicine is launching a second food and toiletry drive for the community, in partnership with Food Gatherers. The drive will take place between September 8 and 27th online and in person, and is open to all U-M faculty, staff and students, and members of the community who are in a position to give.
A team co-led by Michigan Medicine researchers has received funding to study the role of convalescent plasma in mitigating symptoms of COVID-19 in patients with mild illness and preventing the progression of the disease from mild to severe.
U-M researchers have launched dozens of COVID-19 studies in the past six weeks, working at top speed to understand the new coronavirus, test ways of preventing or treating COVID-19, and measure the pandemic’s effects on people and society. Now, they need the public’s help.
As part of its COVID-19 donation drive, Michigan Medicine has started accepting hand-made cloth masks for staff working in non-patient care settings, and 3-D printed “mask adjuster” bands to prevent sore ears among clinical staff. The two new items join the list of other supplies and financial donations being collected to help Michigan Medicine teams and community partners. These include personal protective gear such as masks, gowns and gloves; meals for front-line staff, and non-perishable food and toiletries for Food Gatherers.
A broad array of research at Michigan Medicine and many other areas of U-M is addressing the global COVID-19 pandemic and its effects.
An ongoing Michigan Medicine donation drive for COVID-19 protective gear will take on an added dimension to address food insecurity and other basic needs.
An orchestra made up of U-M scientists, health professionals and engineers will perform a free concert January 12.
In December, 1869. the nation's first university-owned hospital opened at U-M, creating an academic medical center that grew into the nationally known institution that's now called MIchigan Medicine.
Medical School faculty who have innovated in a range of fields have been elected to a national honor society for members of all scientific fields.
Across Michigan, U-M and local partners will help get risky leftover medications out of homes and into safe hands on October 26.
They’ve devoted their careers to studying topics as wide-ranging as violent injuries, new drugs to address muscle loss, and the way microbes interact with our immune system.
But today, they share a common achievement: election to the highest honorary society in the United States for researchers in medicine and health.
For decades, U-M teams have tackled some of the world’s toughest health challenges through research, education and global partnership. Now, thanks to a new $10 million gift, those teams will have new resources to think even bigger, work together and with global partners more effectively, and make a greater positive impact on the health and health care of people with the greatest need worldwide.
A new gift to the University of Michigan aims to bring more precision to the care of people with bipolar disorder. It will expand and harness the power of massive data from U-M bipolar research and allow researchers to mine that trove of information in combination with other data, using advanced tools created for Precision Health at U-M.
An institutional report card for gender equity representing more than 500 institutions worldwide reveals that women are not equally promoted, recruited or retained to senior roles, and that policies to support women in science are lacking.
Justin B. Dimick, M.D., M.P.H., a national leader in helping surgical teams achieve the best results for their patients. will lead one of the nation’s top surgery departments.
A competition for biomedical innovators from across Michigan will take place May 15.
Basketball fans can’t wait for the March Madness tournament — but medical science has its own version, and two Michigan Medicine teams have made it to the big dance.
U-M has launched a study to discover if data collected on Apple Watch, combined with other health information, can provide insight into health, wellness, and disease
Michiganders can get old and unneeded medications - including risky opioid painkillers - out of their homes for free at events at 60 locations across Michigan on October 27, 2018.
A new grant to University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center member Arul Chinnaiyan, M.D., Ph.D., will provide long-term support to increase understanding of genetic markers of cancer to leverage targeted treatments.