In Michigan, families don’t have to travel far for top pediatric eye specialists

A recent study comparing the impact of COVID-19 on VA and non-federal hospitals showed the VA structure held several distinct advantages when adapting to the pandemic including the ability to quickly expand bed capacity, retain staff, mitigate supply shortages and avoid financial hardship.

As the number of heart transplants performed across the United States continues to grow, surgeons at the U-M Health are taking advantage of technology that could increase its transplant yield by as much as 30%. Transplant surgeons in Ann Arbor completed the health system’s first heart transplant using an organ from a donor who had recently died — a process called donation after circulatory death, or DCD.

Iron levels in the blood – and specifically, a type of iron storage called ferritin – have been linked to mental health symptom severity

Use and confidence are lower in those with lower incomes or lower levels of physical or mental health

Life stressors can contribute to multiple sclerosis flares and disability. Learn about the research on how stress can impact MS, and how to manage stress to improve your health.

Scientists have wondered whether there are differences in the types of yeast that become pathogenic. A study from the U-M Medical School Department of Microbiology and Immunology finds that the colonizing strains are very similar to pathogenic strains.

One of the most important protein complexes in mammals involved in ERAD is called SEL1L-HRD1. Recent research finds that this protein complex helps regulate another critical protein involved in innate immunity, called STING, at the endoplasmic reticulum.

Blood donation guidelines based on individual risk rather than broad bans increase the number of people eligible to give and save lives.

A Michigan Medicine study finds controlling elevated carbon dioxide improves survival in patients.

Research finds higher blood sugar linked to faster loss of brain power in stroke survivors.

Sugar free: investigator finds cancer cells use a new fuel in absence of sugar

Learn how lived experience and research experts define wellness when living with bipolar disorder with the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Program at the University of Michigan.

Here are four steps to take if you're considering buying used baby and kid gear, such as strollers, cribs and/or highchairs.

After a car accident that left one teenager with multiple injuries, surgeons helped her get back to her passion of dancing.