News & Briefs
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Research News
Survey focused on how much people in their teens and early 20s know about periods and their experience and attitudes around “period poverty”
PPI prescriptions for veterans dropped quickly, but some missed out on protective use; lack of reduction in supposed harms indicates PPIs may not be as harmful as once thought
Policy Briefs
A U-M team, in partnership with the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services, used multiple data sources to identify adults with sickle cell disease who are eligible to receive coverage for care due to a recent expansion of a state health services program.
Research finds that medications for opioid use disorder were rarely prescribed following emergency department visits for opioid overdose among patients with Medicaid. In this IHPI brief, a U-M team outlines considerations for policymakers and health systems to improve treatment initiation rates.
This policy brief highlights interim evaluation results for the Healthy Michigan Plan, Michigan’s Medicaid expansion program.
Announcements / Awards
$13 million grant aims to understand how exposures to toxic metals and industrial pollution impact the health and cancer risk of residents across Michigan
Tobacco cessation incentivization program tested at the U-M Addiction Center will now be available to pregnant participants
Explainers
Expert shares insight on how to support this new generation of caregivers
Steven Broglio, director of the Michigan Concussion Center, discusses the significant changes in the last few years in how concussions are identified and treated.
Top U-M experts share insights into new safe storage requirement, “red flag” law and other efforts to reduce injury and death
Opinion / Commentary
Maria Silveira discusses the hospice care landscape for people with dementia.
A commentary by Canadian and U.S. scoliosis researchers on the current state of scoliolis detection, care and coverage
U-M researchers discuss trends in firearm-involved fatalities and policy considerations to decrease firearm deaths