1. Music mattered most: How a medical team granted this patient’s wish

    To ease the pain of this musician’s medical journey, his support team at Michigan Medicine connected him to the Gifts of Art program. They fulfilled David Labelle’s wish to play the grand piano in University Hospital before he passed away.

  2. A round of shots for everyone

    What a way to end the year! Mark Schlissel details news of the COVID-19 vaccine deployment at U-M.

  3. Is the end in sight?

    Get an inside look at the COVID-19 vaccine development and approval process with U-M Professor of Epidemiology Arnold Monto. He is the acting chair of the FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products and Advisory Committee.

  4. Life after COVID-19 hospitalization

    Study shows death, rehospitalization, and problems with basic activities, jobs, mental health, and finances plague many coronavirus patients.

  5. No one dies alone

    U-M medical students have reintroduced a bedside program amid the COVID-19 crisis in which volunteers comfort patients near the end of life: ‘It’s an essential part of humanity.’

  6. A ‘menacing, alien machine’

    The coronavirus’ spiky ball tells a story, and if people understood it better they might feel more confident about defeating it, says the scientist who founded U-M’s BioArtography Project.

  7. The COVID-19 curve has unflattened. Fast. Now what?

    Pandemic historians who showed the power of efforts to ‘flatten the curve’ say it will take all-out effort by individuals, industry, and elected officials to reduce death and suffering until vaccines are available.

  8. Med student Finn helps design COVID-19 class while training for Olympic trials

    She concluded her collegiate career as a nine-time All-American in last June’s NCAA outdoor championships. But this champion is far from done running or with her studies. The first-year medical student recently earned her master’s in public health and epidemiology.

  9. Medical students drive development of new pandemic course

    Students will explore various aspects of pandemic response using COVID-19 as a case study, from the history of pandemics; disaster response from the federal down to the local and institutional levels; and health inequities, among other topics.