Many surgeons write prescriptions for opioid pain medications four times larger than what their patients will actually use after common operations, a new study shows.
And the size of that prescription may be the most important factor in how many opioid pills the patient will take – outweighing their pain scores, the intensity of their operation and personal factors, the research suggests.

At 60 locations across the state, Michiganders can bring old, expired or unneeded medicines to a convenient location to drop off, knowing they’ll be properly and safely destroyed.

“With Great Lakes, researchers in emerging fields like machine learning and precision health will have access to a higher level of computational power…the end result will be improved performance, flexibility, and reliability for U-M researchers.”

“Social determinants of health are often far more important than genetic determinants of health, but that doesn’t mean genetic determinants aren’t important. So you’ve got to embrace the complexity and figure out how we translate this to a broad general public.”

A $20 million gift from The D. Dan and Betty Kahn Foundation will expand collaboration among researchers at the University of Michigan, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel to help enhance quality of life through advancements in robotics and precision health.

“When it comes to precision health, we have tremendous opportunities to advance scientific discovery,” said Marschall S. Runge.

GeoPain, a mobile pain tracking app….gives users a 3D image of the body to zero in on the pain—its location and intensity—and brings a new tool to precision health.