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Making Screen Time More Meaningful
A University of Michigan pediatrician shares how parents should be engaging with their children when allowing them to use smartphones and tablets.
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Watchman or Warfarin? Choosing a Method of Stroke Prevention
Watchman heart implant serves as warfarin alternative to avert stroke-provoking clots. This new medical technology is an option for certain at-risk patients.
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How Printing a 3-D Skull Helped Save a Real One
A 3-D printed model of the patient’s skull provided a vital road map to help University of Michigan doctors remove a tumor lodged deep in a teenager’s skull.
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The Heart You Take with You
Advancing medical technology has allowed the University of Michigan to equip a patient with a portable total artificial heart that weighs just 13 pounds.
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The Doctor Will Text You Now
Young women who received text reminders were three times as likely to receive follow-up care compared to the ones who received paper discharge instructions.
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Seeing Tumor Tissue Under a Better Microscope
Health innovation continues with the SRS Microscope that allows surgeons at the University of Michigan to differentiate between tumor cells and brain tissue.
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How 3-D Printed Devices Saved Three Babies' Lives
New Medical Technology at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital allowed three babies with tracheobronchomalacia to breath with the help of 3-D Printed Tracheal Splints.