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Study in Chinese Doctors Shows Mental Toll of Caring in the Time of COVID-19
A study in Chinese doctors shows the mental strain experienced by healthcare workers during COVID-19 pandemic.
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Should Tweens Use Health Apps?
Experts caution parents to research health apps before tweens use them and consider such factors as privacy, ad content and body image impact.
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One Nurse’s Journey: Surviving COVID-19, Facing a Long Road to Recovery
A pediatric intensive care nurse survived COVID-19 in part due to the excellent treatment she received from her peers. This National Nurses Week, she shares her appreciation
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Anticipating, Managing and Anticipating Again: The Phases of COVID-19 in Surgical Practice
How do you prepare for a pandemic? You plan, and then you adapt.
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Avoiding Crowds is Nothing New for 10-Year-Old with Bone Marrow Disease
A rare childhood bone marrow disease made social distancing a requirement for one patient to mitigate the risk of infection long before COVID-19 required it of everyone.
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Nursing Homes Prepared for Pandemics, but COVID-19 Reveals Gaps
Nursing homes across America, and care homes in the UK and beyond, have had clusters of COVID-19 cases. How can they contain the spread of coronavirus or other pandemics?
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Personalized Device Could Support Multiple COVID-19 Patients From Single Ventilator
3D printing fuels U-M efforts to rapidly increase ventilator capacity while providing each patient on vent support with individually tailored gas pressures and pressure monitoring.
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8 Ways to Help Teens Cope with Social Distancing Blues
Isolation is hard for all of us, but may be disproportionately difficult for teenagers who are missing major social milestones due to current necessary social distancing measures.
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14 Things to Do If Someone You Live With Has COVID-19
What to do if you have coronavirus, or if you live with someone who has confirmed or suspected COVID-19. Tips for preventing infection while providing COVID care at home.
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Chloroquine, Ibuprofen and Beyond: Doctors Discuss Latest Treatments, and Treatment Rumors, For COVID-19
There are no therapies proven to prevent or treat COVID-19 yet, but providers can help address symptoms while they continue researching new ideas.
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The Pandemic Fight Over Plaquenil
A patient with lupus weighs in on the COVID drug debate.
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Minority Patients Benefit From Having Minority Doctors, But That’s a Hard Match to Make
An op-ed by a family medicine physician at Michigan Medicine.
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Social Distancing With Kids
A childhood expert provides social distancing, routines and behavior management tips to help parents with kids now at home full time.
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7 Ways to Talk to Your Child About Good and Bad Touch
A national poll, conducted by pediatricians at C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital, covers sexual abuse and ways you as a parent can discuss the topic with your own children.
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100 Years of Stopping Contagion with Science
Even before scientists understood what caused them, or developed drugs or vaccines for them, U-M offered advanced care for infectious diseases.