Coping with anxiety as mask mandates lift, what a mini stroke is and why you need to act FAST — and more health stories

A roundup of articles from both the Michigan Health and Michigan Health Lab blogs, which cover stories on breaking news and research, health tips and wellness that you won’t want to miss.

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• Coping with Anxiety as Mask Mandates Lift: As mask regulations relax, experts discuss how you can start to adapt, and ease into, the new policies rolling out.
• What a Mini Stroke Is, and Why You Need To Act FAST: The signs of a TIA to watch for and how to handle the emergency.
• Adults Unmasked: What That Means for Unvaccinated Kids: As mask mandates are lifted, parents with unvaccinated kids may wonder if it’s time to resume to “normal”.
• A Daughter’s Lifesaving Gift to Her Father: Without his knowledge, Emily Wenzel-Miles got evaluated to be her dad’s potential liver donor. That appointment saved his life.
• One Doctor’s American Dream: To Stop Hate: A clinician shares his immigrant father’s legacy and recounts his life as an Asian American.
• COVID-19 Coverage: Get the latest stories from the Michigan Health and the Michigan Health Lab on the coronavirus outbreak.
• This deep learning algorithm can detect acute respiratory distress syndrome with extreme accuracy.
• Escape from Oblivion: How the Brain Reboots after Deep Anesthesia: A recently published innovative experiment examined the patterns of reemerging consciousness and cognitive function after general anesthesia.
• Pandemic Shows Essential Role of ECT Treatment for Severe Depression: A new commentary describes the experiences of electroconvulsive therapy centers during the spring of 2020, revealing major impacts seen from their reduced services.
• Babies with Seizures May Be Overmedicated: A study suggests that keeping newborns on longer term ant-seizure drugs may not prevent continued seizures or epilepsy or even change development.
• Treatment Barrier Falls, but More Remain, for People with Opioid Issues: Any licensed provider can prescribe any patient any medication on the market, except buprenorphine, even though it has been proven to help people with an opioid addiction. A new policy shift could change that.
• Vast Under-Treatment of Diabetes Seen in Global Study: According to findings, only 1 in 10 people with diabetes in low- and middle-income countries receive the comprehensive care they need to reduce their diabetes-related problems.
• What Lies Ahead for the Affordable Care Act?: Experts discuss a key Supreme Court ruling and other policies and proposals playing out at the state and federal level.