The simple act of becoming an organ donor has major benefits. See how far your gift can go — and why more donors are desperately needed.

A Kellogg Eye Center study finds great promise in corneal transplants for patients who suffer shingles and develop subsequent vision-limiting corneal scarring.

Hospitals have put a lot of effort into encouraging good hand hygiene among their staff. But new findings about multidrug-resistant organisms suggest a new frontier for preventing transmission.

A pilot study identifies a safe, effective strategy to help women with HIV have children in low-resource countries.

A Michigan Medicine professor and a U-M medical student created an app to help patients manage HHT, a systemic blood vessel disorder characterized by excessive nose bleeding.

Study explores whether a baby’s level of prematurity in combination with highly irritable behavior  may influence severity of maternal depressive symptoms.

A pilot study of families of children going home after tonsil surgery finds that a smartphone app may reduce clinic calls and simplify care instructions for parents. 

With their general medical training, and their special focus on the needs of hospitalized patients, hospitalist physicians play a key role in many hospitals.

Few people with HDHPs proactively ask about or search for lower-cost care. This suggests opportunity for insurers, employers and health care providers to help.

Exposure to chemotherapy can create hazards for nurses, pharmacists as they deliver lifesaving care to patients, but use of protective devices remains low.

Study: Long-term Opioid use by one or more family members was associated to persistent opioid use by adolescents prescribed opioids after common surgical and dental procedures.

Experts call for regulations to strike a balance between personal privacy rights and the potential for “big data” research to improve patient care and fuel innovation.

U-M researchers show more adults with diabetes covered after ACA provisions for pre-existing conditions and older adults began.

A new survey examines families’ concerns about the facilities — and how proximity to schools, churches and day care centers could affect their children.

Targeting fluoroquinolone prescribing in hospitals is effective, a 48-hospital study shows, but many patients still get discharge prescriptions for them.