More funding, scientific insights and clinical advances have started to drive progress in this challenging disease, and researchers see potential for immunotherapy to revolutionize its future.

The management of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers varies greatly, according to a new study. Researchers offer three key takeaways.

Countless research projects to better understand the science of addiction are in motion. Those cross-disciplinary findings are informing prevention and treatment.

Health care coverage for low-income patients produces fiscal benefits that include lower unpaid debts, fewer bankruptcies and higher credit scores.

A new drug policy was meant to curb unnecessary opioid prescriptions. Instead, prescriptions after surgery went up.

Benzodiazepines pose special risks to older adults. New research finds many of those who start taking them aren’t stopping.

See how the Healthy Michigan Plan, Michigan's expansion of the Medicaid for low income adults, is improving access to birth control and family planning services.

Younger stroke survivors are having less trouble paying for medications that can stave off a second stroke, thanks to expanded Medicaid and other ACA provisions.

Making patients’ medication costs more affordable helps ensure compliance, a new study shows. And the investment can avoid costlier care in the future.

Severe traumatic brain injury treatment based on brain tissue oxygen levels might help patients have better recoveries. BOOST 3 trials will begin in 2018.

Newborn screening is the first step toward diagnosis, but the next phase of testing can take many months with high costs involved according to a survey.

New Medicaid work requirements rules in several states mean low-income people will have to work, or prove they’re too unhealthy to work.

Just one-third of older Americans intend to donate their organs, a new study finds. The Study findings highlight a need to encourage older organ Donors.

Hepatitis C rates have surged in the U.S. as drug use and opioid abuse have risen. A Michigan Medicine hepatologist reflects on the troubling trend.

Many Americans over 50 favor limits on painkiller prescribing, and those who receive prescriptions need more counseling about risks and safe disposal options, a new poll finds.