Articles tagged:University of Michigan research

Posted: Tue Dec 1 3:54 p.m. by Tina Reed

Physicians could order far fewer stress tests and beta blockers before non-cardiac surgeries, cutting unnecessary costs and procedures without causing complications to their patients, a recent U-M report concluded. In the report released online ahead of print in Annals of Internal Medicine, U-M researchers said patients with stable heart disease ...

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Posted: Mon Aug 31 4 p.m. by Tina Reed

The family member or friend that a newly diagnosed breast cancer patient brings with her - not what she’s being told by a surgeon - may play a bigger role in the kind of surgery she ends up choosing, a newly published University of Michigan study found. Researchers from U-M’s ...

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Posted: Mon Aug 24 11:30 a.m. by Tina Reed

University of Michigan researchers believe they may have discovered a treatment for the deadly inflammatory lung disorder idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis after finding positive testing results in mice. Patients with pulmonary fibrosis experience fatigue, weakness, rapid weight loss, discomfort in the chest and a chronic cough associated with the gradual scarring ...

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Posted: Mon Aug 10 5 p.m. by Tina Reed

University of Michigan researchers have earned $61.1 million in grants fueled by the federal stimulus package passed by Congress earlier this year. The funding, which comes to U-M through nearly 160 grants, including 113 from the National Institutes of Health, is the most received by any U.S. university to date. ...

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