Lead Research Communicator
Malcom is a lead research communicator for Michigan Medicine and research communications strategist for the U-M Medical School, with more than 20 years of experience in strategic communications, marketing, and health and science writing. She covers the basic science departments, pulmonary and critical care medicine, infectious disease, pathology and anesthesiology. Contact: [email protected]
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Hallie Prescott of the Michigan Medicine Division of Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine is providing guidance at the state and national level to reduce the burden of sepsis in hospitalized patients.
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A new U-M study reveals a possible connection between COPD and the lung microbiome – the population of microbes living inside the lower airway.
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Therapies for pain conditions like fibromyalgia provide clues for helping those with long COVID-19
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Based on recent federal fiscal year data released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the largest single funder of biomedical research in the world, the U-M Medical School is ranked number 11 in the country, up from 13 in federal fiscal year 2022.
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Bacteria in the mouth may play a role in survival from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
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A new study links two autism-associated genes together for the first time, potentially revealing a mechanism behind brain changes seen in people with autism.
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A prospective study published in the journal Lancet Microbe provides more clarity on which patient populations are at higher risk for prolonged infections — and hints that this fear is likely unwarranted.
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A study from the University of Michigan Medical School developed off-switches useful for improving the safety of the Type I-C/Cas3 gene editor.
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A Michigan Medicine FAQ about Paxlovid, with new information since its FDA approval in May 2023.
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A recent study from U-M offers more insight into the underlying causes of EOE.
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A team developed a new approach for combining microbiome data together while overcoming the noise introduced by the different techniques used in each study into a tool they dubbed MaLiAmPi (Maximum Likelihood Amplicon Pipeline).
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U-M study shows accurate AI models improved diagnostic decisions, but biased models led to serious declines
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A Michigan Medicine study published in JAMA Network Open examines past-year use of some of these hemp-derived cannabinoids, including cannabidiol, Delta 8-THC, cannabigerol and cannabinol.
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Teams from Vanderbilt University Medical Center and the University of Michigan design a comprehensive study that integrates multiple analytic approaches that has linked a regulatory gene network and functional defects in insulin-producing pancreatic beta cells to type 2 diabetes.
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Michigan Medicine researchers have found that growing bacteria on agar mixed with organs is an efficient and effective way to study infectious pathogens.