U-M & Michigan Medicine collaboration addresses IV fluid shortage in less than 24 hours

Following the devastation of Hurricane Helene, Baxter International Inc. was forced to temporarily halt production & distribution of IV fluid bags at its plant in North Carolina. As a result, healthcare systems across the United States, including U-M Health, took immediate measures to identify and reduce their use of IV fluid bags.

Dr. Hitinder Gurm & leadership in Supply Chain Services recognized the potential for data to guide a timely and proactive response to the ongoing shortage and sent out a call to rally specialists across U-M. As part of this effort, Precision Health Co-Director Brahmajee Nallamothu reached out to Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation’s Data Science Team to see if they could lend their expertise…

New insights on persistent opioid use after surgery and genetic associations to opioid use disorder.

In a recent edition of Genetic Epidemiology, Aubrey C. Annis and mentors Gonçalo R. Abecasis and Chad Brummett have new insights to share on the genetic associations between persistent opioid use after surgery and subsequent opioid use disorder in their publication, “Genetic Associations of Persistent Opioid Use After Surgery Point to OPRM1 but Not Other Opioid-Related Loci as the Main Driver of Opioid Use Disorder”.  Data from this study were in part from the Michigan Genomics Initiative.

Catch July/August Member Research Highlights!

Make sure to take a look at the most recent research from our Precision Health members. Each month we compile the precision health and health-centric research that our faculty/researcher members have published; submit your recent research to phmembership@umich.edu for next month’s Highlight!