Can a failing heart recover? For many years, the answer to that question was unequivocally "No." But as the University of Utah School of Medicine’s annual Utah Cardiac Recovery Symposium...
The University of Utah Allergies and Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disorders Clinic located at Primary Children’s Hospital has joined the Food Allergy Research & Education (FARE) clinical network and was named a...
The new L. S. Skaggs Patient Wellness Center, located in the Ray and Tye Noorda Oral Health Sciences Building, will open to the public on July 11. Funded by the...
The Native American Research Internship (NARI) is a 10-week program that specializes in guiding Native American students toward careers in those fields. It is designed specifically for Native American undergraduate...
A new study finds that at least 16.8 million Americans could potentially benefit from lowering their systolic blood pressure (SBP) to 120 mmHg, much lower than current guidelines of 140...
Patients whose blood pressure target was lowered to reach a systolic goal of less than 120 mmHg had their risk for heart attack, heart failure or stroke reduced by 24...
A new clinical trial to test how a high dose of stem cells delivered via a method called "retrograde coronary sinus infusion" affects end stage heart failure patients is showing...
Did you know your heart beats 100,000 times a day and your feet have 500,000 sweat glands? Become a trivia champ with these facts about the human body.
Thirty years ago on Dec. 2, 1982, cardiothoracic surgeon William DeVries, MD, carefully removed the ravaged heart of Dr. Barney Clark and replaced it with the world's first permanent artificial...
The finding by researchers at the University of Utah and University of South Carolina means scientists may be able to develop drugs to prevent or lessen the severity of inflammatory...
