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.
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.
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.
Across Michigan, U-M and local partners will help get risky leftover medications out of homes and into safe hands on October 26.
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.
Nearly a third of older adults have received a prescription for an opioid pain medicine in the past two years, but many of them didn’t get enough counseling about the risks that come with the potent painkillers, how to reduce their use, when to switch to a non-opioid option, or what to do with leftover pills.
As they start across the stage of the University of Michigan’s historic Hill Auditorium this afternoon, 165 future health care leaders will be students. But when they step off the stage, they’ll be physicians. The 168th graduating class of the U-M Medical School will receive their diplomas in a commencement ceremony capped by an address from the 19th Surgeon General of the United States, Vivek Murthy, MD, MBA.
Researchers from U-M and beyond will pitch their biomedical innovation ideas to potential investor "sharks" at a May 16 event.
Michiganders in 16 counties will have a chance to turn in unneeded prescription medications, including opioids, on April 28 through a statewide event organized with help from a U-M team.
A free concert of classical music performed by an orchestra of members of the U-M medical and science community will take place Jan. 21.
Pinkeye isn’t a medical emergency. Neither is a puffy eyelid. But a new study finds that nearly one in four people who seek emergency care for eye problems have those mild conditions, and recommends ways to help those patients get the right level of care.
New research suggests concussion may not significantly impair symptoms or cognitive skills for one gender over another, however, women may still experience greater symptoms and poorer cognitive performance at preseason testing.