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It’s Not the First Time Hospital Construction Has Stopped Because of a Pandemic

Joel Howell | Fall 2020

As part of an urgent plan to reduce expenditures, Michigan Medicine has halted construction on the new inpatient hospital. As disappointing as this decision is, it may provide some perspective to realize that this is not the first time that construction on a new University of Michigan hospital has been suspended indefinitely in the face of an economic catastrophe and a pandemic.

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“This Infection, Like War, Kills the Young”

Katie Vloet | Autumn 2018

As the 1918 influenza pandemic circled the globe, U-M Medical School Dean Victor Vaughan was called in to help unravel the mystery of the deadly illness.

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Looking back on another virus battle: U-M’s role in polio history

Kara Gavin | May 14, 2020

The University of Michigan played a special role in the fight against polio for many decades, from the treatment of its effects to the massive clinical trial that led to the first approved vaccine.

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The idea to ‘flatten the curve’

James Tobin | April 23, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many parallels have been drawn between this pandemic and the Great Influenza of the early 20th century. Using the 1918-19 findings from the Center for the History of Medicine, the Center for Disease Control incorporated plans to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19.

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The First University Hospital

James Tobin | Winter 2020

150 years ago, U-M made history when it converted a professor’s house into the first structure in the U.S. that could rightly be called a hospital owned and operated by a university.

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Three in One: How Academic Medical Centers Came to Be

Kara Gavin | January 2, 2020

No institution had combined patient care with medical education and research before the University of Michigan. They may be commonplace today, however, historically, these huge university medical centers were unfathomable pieces of fiction.

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History of Michigan Medicine

December 1, 2019

Explore 150 years of Michigan Medicine history and heritage, including the ways in which the Leaders and Best have always been on the frontlines of health and healing.

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X-Ray Vision

Jim Tobin | February 2019

James Gerrit Van Zwaluwenburg (M.D. 1908) was an early adopter of X-ray technology, and he made imaging an integral element of clinical diagnoses and patient care at U-M.

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