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New jointly operated Acute Care for Elders (ACE) unit based on national model of care specially designed for older adults; among select few in the country ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a joint effort to improve health outcomes for the region's older adult patient population, the University of Michigan Health System and St. Joseph Mercy Ann Arbor will collaborate to open a medical care unit specializing in geriatric care. The new UM-SJMAA Acute Care for...
Bioresorbable splint used for first time, successfully stopped life-threatening tracheobronchomalacia, case featured in New England Journal of Medicine ANN ARBOR, Mich., May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Every day, their baby stopped breathing, his collapsed bronchus blocking the crucial flow of air to his lungs. April and Bryan Gionfriddo watched helplessly, just praying that somehow the dire predictions weren't true. "Quite a few doctors said he had a good chance of not...
A seven-year quest to understand how breast cancer cells resist treatment with the targeted therapy lapatinib has revealed a previously unknown molecular network that regulates cell death. The discovery provides new avenues to overcome drug resistance, according to researchers at Duke Cancer Institute. "We've revealed multiple new signaling pathways that regulate cell death," said Sally Kornbluth, PhD, vice dean of Basic Science and professor of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology at Duke...
ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading cardiovascular scientists today announced the launch of avert-AF, a new initiative aimed at developing drug treatments for the prevention of the more advanced forms of atrial fibrillation. Atrial fibrillation (AF or A-fib) is the most common cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heart beat). Although it may not cause any symptoms, it is often associated with palpitations, fainting, chest pain, or congestive heart failure. Atrial...
Calling gastroesophageal reflux a disease increases parents' wish for medication, symptoms are frequently over-treated in infants, according to new research ANN ARBOR, Mich., April 1, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Medications used to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, are some of the most widely used medications in children less than one year old. But in a new study, researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Missouri concluded that physicians...
CONCORD, Calif., March 12, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Formtek, Inc., a leading provider of document and content management solutions for over two decades, announced today that it had been awarded a contract by the University of Michigan to provide a Document Management System for use by the University's Space Physics Research Laboratory. The system is to be based on Alfresco Enterprise. Alfresco is the open platform for business critical document management and collaboration, helping...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Emergency departments are not doing enough to make sure parents are properly educated about car seats and the proper use of safety restraints, researchers claim in a new study. According to researcher from the University of Michigan (UM), more than 130,000 children under the age of 13 are treated annually in urgent care facilities as a result of injuries sustained in automobile crashes. However, the researchers said that more than...
More than one-third of ER physicians say they are uncertain whether their department has safety restraint info for patients, according to new U-M study ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 5, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Each year, more than 130,000 children younger than 13 are treated in U.S. emergency departments after motor-vehicle crash-related injuries. Each of these visits offer a chance to pass along tips for proper use of child passenger restraints, but a new study from the...
Future tools should build on success of current scores to improve care for vulnerable infants, according to U-M research published in Pediatrics ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 4, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Scoring methods commonly used to evaluate Newborn Intensive Care Units (NICU) are inconsistent, according to new research from the University of Michigan. The research published last week in the journal Pediatrics compared 10 well-known scores that have been developed to evaluate...
However, younger parents are more likely to say online scores for physicians are very important, according to U-M's National Poll on Children's Health ANN ARBOR, Mich., Feb. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Numerous websites are available to rate just about any service or product: restaurant food, hotel service and even a pediatrician's care. However, a new poll from the University of Michigan shows that only 25 percent of parents say they consider doctor rating websites very...
