Noah Fromson
Public Relations Representative

Fromson joined Michigan Medicine in March 2021. He covers the neurosciences and cardiovascular medicine. He spent three years as a television reporter in West Michigan and is passionate about multimedia storytelling. Contact: [email protected] Twitter: @noahfromson

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Most cardiac arrests happen at home. Here’s how to make yours ‘heartsafe’
The program partners with first responders and community leaders to increase awareness of in-home cardiac arrests.
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‘My life matters’: resilience after traumatic spinal cord injury
Research shows what key factors affect flourishing after the injury.
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Peak performance: how climbing mountains transformed a surgeon
Reaching the tallest peaks has not just made the veteran physician a better surgeon, it’s made him a better person.
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A new approach to medical guidelines, with inspiration from Wikipedia
The “Wikiguideline” approach establishes recommendations only when high-quality, hypothesis-confirming evidence is available.
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Drugs showing promise in cancer trials reduce scarring for scleroderma
The findings could lead to repurposing drugs for patients with the sometimes-fatal condition.
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Study finds healthy-appearing lupus skin predisposed to flares, rashes
In patients with lupus, immune cells undergo an inflammatory transformation when migrating from the blood to the skin.
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Just over half of Michigan pharmacies offer overdose-fighting naloxone without prescription
Some pharmacies participated in the standing order but did not have any naloxone available on the shelf.
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On a mission: orthopaedic surgeons look to expand program abroad
In the Dominican Republic, University of Michigan Health teams fix fractures, feet and more
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Some children with cerebral palsy scoliosis may not need pelvic fixation, study shows
Inserting screws in the pelvis for growth-friendly treatment of scoliosis can be painful and lead to infection in this patient population.
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Study: Older adults with rheumatoid arthritis still undermedicated, despite aggressive guidelines
Research shows adults with rheumatoid arthritis are underprescribed disease-modifying drugs, despite guidelines saying otherwise. Clinicians must treat rheumatic diseases while addressing multimorbidity and polypharmacy.
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Critical and underutilized: fire and police responders associated with higher cardiac arrest survival rates
Police and fire first responders are often first on the scene during emergency cardiac arrest, and their intervention correlates with higher survival rates for patients.
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Rehabilitation psychologists: specialists you may not yet know, but might one day need
More awareness is needed to grow the essential field.
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Kids with rare autoimmune disease show these symptoms before blood clots 
Antiphospholipid syndrome is rare in adults and even less common among children. 
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From Michigan to Beijing: An athletic trainer’s journey to Olympic hockey
He’s worked with the nation’s top talent in the sport for two decades.
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COVID-19’s faces of health care: Challenges faced, sacrifices made over two pandemic years
They were the first to answer the call in March 2020. Now, they reflect on COVID and how their lives have changed.
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