More articles about: Health Management
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100 years of insulin
An endocrinologist discusses the history of the life-saving drug and its importance in diabetes management.
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Picking health insurance for 2022? Check this guide to avoid a common mistake
Health savings accounts and flexible spending accounts can help people have money on hand for medical expenses, and get a tax break too.
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4 strategies for controlling your asthma in the fall
The season brings with it a host of allergens that can make life miserable. Here’s how to manage, according to allergists.
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3 reasons to improve your core strength
Research confirms that strengthening the body’s core can help prevent injuries or reducing their severity. New research from Michigan Medicine is exploring whether the same may be true for strengthening the neck to protect against head injuries.
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Unique asthma therapy helps woman breathe easier
For asthma, a novel treatment called bronchial thermoplasty may be an option, like it was for this grandmother and avid exerciser.
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Immunocompromised people make up nearly half of COVID-19 breakthrough hospitalizations
An extra vaccine dose may help.
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How can nursing homes protect residents from infection? Follow the research
Nursing home residents were hit hard by COVID-19, but other infections threaten their health too including superbugs known as MDROs, and urinary tract infections.
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ECT: The final (essential) option
Two mothers discuss the benefits and side effects of electroconvulsive treatments received by their sons. 
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Transgender couple fulfills dream to become parents
Gender-affirming health care is essential for transgender patients. When Jesse Ballard and Maria Ortiz decided to become parents, Dr. Daphna Stroumsa and their team helped them navigate transmasculine pregnancy and birth.
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HVAD risks: What you need to know
After a popular medical device for heart failure is taken off the market, a cardiac surgeon explains why most people won’t have theirs removed.
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Teenage ski racer walks again, eyeing slopes after traumatic car crash
His “toughest finish line yet” involves work with rehabilitation physicians, orthopedists and neurosurgery specialists.
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Weighing the risks and benefits of organs donated for transplant
Although numerous safeguards are in place, there is a small chance that a potential organ donor can have an undetected infection such as Hepatitis B, C or HIV, and pass that infection on to a transplant recipient.
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Electroconvulsive therapy: Peeling back the mystery
A Michigan Medicine patient describes why she considers electroconvulsive therapy, also known as ECT, an essential treatment.
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When Art Therapy Goes Virtual
One patient transcends her ‘moat’ against COVID-19 while her art therapist finds unexpected benefits to teaching online.
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A Daughter’s Lifesaving Gift to Her Father
The human liver can regenerate, making living donor liver transplants possible. Michigan Medicine’s Transplant Center is one of only a few in the country offering this option.
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