Michigan Medicine has joined other leading health systems in a nationwide public awareness and education campaign about preventing firearm injury and death, by encouraging parents to ask about the presence and storage of firearms in homes children will visit.
gift from University of Michigan alumni Susan and Paul Meister will expand the university’s impact on children’s health research. The Child Health Evaluation and Research (CHEAR) Center at Michigan Medicine will now be known as the Susan B. Meister Child Health Evaluation and Research Center in honor of Dr. Meister, a respected health care policy expert.
Parents who do not get their children flu shots rate flu vaccine less favorably than other childhood vaccines, a national poll finds.
Over the same time period that multiple outbreaks of measles and whooping cough made headlines around the country, parents’ views on vaccines became more favorable.
A clinical trial using T-cell therapy that uses the patients’ own immune cells to hunt down cancer cells is now being offered at the University of Michigan’s C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital.
