Are hospitals doing all they can to prevent C. diff infections? Not yet, new study suggests
Survey of nearly 400 hospitals finds half lack programs to cut use of antibiotics that can encourage dangerous gut infection
When meeting with patients to discuss adjuvant endocrine therapy for breast cancer, the question often arises, “How will I know that the treatment is working?”
Researchers have sought to identify predictors of response to adjuvant endocrine therapy that can be used to guide treatment...
University of Michigan’s Lisa A. Prosser, Ph.D., M.S., has been selected by the ISPOR Awards Committee as the recipient of the 2015 ISPOR Award for Excellence in Methodology of Pharmacoeconomics and Health Outcomes Research...
Matthew M. Davis, M.D., M.A.P.P., has been appointed as IHPI’s first deputy director effective May 1, 2015.
In this newly created role, Davis will help lead the development and support of IHPI’s policy-relevant research and education, in conjunction with his roles as professor of...
ANN ARBOR—If a million black Americans who died prematurely had been alive to vote in the 2004 elections, the outcome in several key races would have been very different, a researcher at the University of Michigan and colleagues found.
In the end it wouldn't have changed the country's...
A new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology finds that women who receive a placebo reported almost the same clinical benefits as women in the O3-FA arm, although the placebo did not lower serum triglycerides.
"...the placebo response is related to the expectations...
A year ago, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) reported that more patients than ever are surviving after treatment for severe sepsis. But now, research shows that the finding only tells one part of the story. A spate of recent studies...