Medical Research

Grand Rapids, Mich., Jan. 8, 2026 – A decades-old drug, long used to treat conditions including a chronic parasitic disease, may soon offer new hope for even more patients with a different...

Southfield, Mich., Oct. 22, 2025 – Corewell Health physicians are researching cancer treatment advancements with a new $2.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The four-year...

Matthew Sims, M.D., Ph.D., FACP, FIDSA, currently the director of infectious diseases research at Corewell Health, will assume the role of the inaugural Corewell Health East research medical...

Grand Rapids, Mich., May 15, 2025 – A new study that is the first to compare inflammation and brain stress responses in long COVID-19 patients with individuals who have fully recovered shows...

Southfield, Mich., April 23, 2025 – For many cancer patients, side effects from radiation can be debilitating. But a new way of delivering radiation treatment has proven effective at eliminating...

Grand Rapids, Mich., Nov. 21, 2024 – For 17 years, Corewell Health in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Michigan State University College of Human Medicine have funded more than $27 million in...

To make a transformative difference for leukemia research at Corewell Health in Southeast Michigan. An extraordinary bequest from the estate of Harry Kirk Denler will make a game-changing impact...

Grand Rapids, Mich., Sept. 9, 2024 – For the past three years, Corewell Health™ researchers have been studying the genetic code of the virus that causes COVID-19 to better understand how it is...

Corewell Health and MSU look to develop AI tool to identify higher-risk patients earlier SOUTHFIELD, MI, Aug. 12, 2024 - Corewell Health™ and Michigan State University researchers are the first...

New Corewell Health™ research suggests an MRI scan can help predict whether patients with intermediate-risk prostate cancer (cancer confined to the entire...

For up to 30% of patients who are allergic to medical contrast dye or have a dye restriction because of other health conditions, they might find that it takes...

Novel radiopharmaceutical trial could be a game-changer for patients with advanced cancer whose chemotherapy treatments have been unsuccessful GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, March 4, 2024 — BAMF Health, a...

A new Corewell Health study suggests that men who have longer prostatic urethras, the part of the urethra that travels through the prostate, may be at a higher...

Alzheimer’s disease is the fourth leading cause of death among older Black Americans, a trend that is expected to increase exponentially during the next five to 10 years. To address the growing...

Project aims to understand how differences in individuals’ cells impact recovery from disease Grand Rapids, Mich., August 17, 2023 – A Corewell Health™ research team has been awarded a...

For a handful of children worldwide who have an ultra-rare disease called Bachmann-Bupp syndrome, a treatment regimen discovered in just 15 months by the team...

Newsweek distinction salutes exemplary care for moms and newborns. GRAND RAPIDS and SOUTHFIELD, Mich., May 10, 2023 – Four Corewell Health™ hospitals were named to Newsweek’s 2023 list of...

For decades, researchers have marveled at the ability of glioblastoma, a particularly aggressive brain cancer, to turn off a patient’s cancer-fighting...

Precision medicine initiative aims to enroll one million people of diverse backgrounds nationally Grand Rapids, Mich., February 6, 2023 – Corewell Health TM has enrolled its 10,000th participant...

Predictive analytics keeps 200 patients from being readmitted for $5 million cost savings GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., February 2, 2023 – Corewell Health™ care coordinators are using predictive...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., Jan. 25, 2023 — Corewell Health West, formerly Spectrum Health, has successfully completed the first-ever ischemic stroke case using the Zoom™ RDL Radial Access System....

October 17, 2022 - Researchers at Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, have discovered a blood test for pregnant women that uses artificial intelligence and genetic-related biomarkers to accurately...

Preventing and treating low testosterone can improve men’s health, even in those with prostate cancer and symptomatic prostate enlargement August 9, 2022 - For 80-plus years, it has been...

Radiation doses exceed those measured in interventional cardiologists and sonographers GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., July 18, 2022 – Spectrum Health researchers have determined that interventional...

Spectrum Health and MSU will work together on project’s bioinformatics component GRAND RAPIDS, Mich., March 11, 2022 – Spectrum Health will collaborate with Michigan State University...