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How to Protect Your Mental and Physical Health This Holiday Season

Navigating the winter during a pandemic will present new challenges for maintaining mental and physical health. An expert gives advice on weathering the COVID pandemic in the coming months.
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Mobile Clinic Gives Free Prenatal Services to Detroit Moms

The Luke Clinic brings free prenatal and obstetric services to individuals in need.
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Liver Transplant Recipient Fights Off COVID-19

A liver transplant recipient spends 40 days in the ICU at Michigan Medicine and recovers. He shares how his wife and a familiar doctor helped him survive.
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How the Old-Fashioned Telephone Could Become A New Way for Some to See Their Doctor

A telephone visit can sometimes work just as well as an online doctor visit.
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Health Inequality Actually Is a “Black and White Issue”, Research Says

University of Michigan research shows the direct correlation between systemic racism and racial health disparities in the United States.
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Thrive With Your Family: Supporting Kids With Chronic Diseases During COVID-19

Children with chronic conditions may need extra support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our expert panel offers advice and tips for parents navigate these challenges.
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Viruses Live on Doorknobs and Phones and Can Get You Sick – Smart Cleaning and Good Habits Can Help Protect You

An op-ed from the chair of epidemiology at the University of Michigan.
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A Mission to Improve Cystic Fibrosis Treatment Across the Globe

A doctor develops a new training program to help improve testing and care available for those with the genetic disease, starting in the Middle East.
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Michigan Health Lab's 20 for 2020

The most read stories of 2019 on the Michigan Health Lab blog.
Pregnant woman receives her flu shot and Tdap vaccine during her third trimester
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How vaccines protect moms (and babies) during pregnancy and beyond

Find out the benefits of getting a flu shot and the Tdap vaccine during your third trimester of pregnancy, including how these vaccines help protect your unborn baby.
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Pop-Up Eye Clinic in a Shipping Container Targets Underserved Communities

U-M researchers have designed an eye clinic in a shipping container. See how the ophthalmology container clinic is helping underserved regions with eye care.