Medical researchers seeking to find answers for our nation’s growing heart failure epidemic have long focused on why patients’ heart conditions get worse. But might shifting to studying why they...
With $4 million in funding from the National Human Genome Research Institute, the University of Utah Center of Excellence in ELSI (Ethical, Legal, & Social Implications) Research (UCEER) will explore...
A memorial service to honor 255 people who gave their bodies to science and education at the University of Utah last year will be held on Friday, May 27th, 2016...
Scientists at the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories, and IDbyDNA, Inc., have developed ultra-fast, meta-genomics analysis software called Taxonomer that dramatically improves the accuracy and speed of pathogen detection. In...
(Deseret News) - Despite huge strides in medicine, doctors today are still regularly confounded with what seems to be a simple task: diagnosing infectious diseases.
Summer is rapidly approaching. Soon, kids will be out of school, barbecues will sizzle, and temperatures will climb. In health care, we refer to summer as "trauma season."
Older Americans with some hearing loss shouldn’t feel alone if they have trouble understanding British TV sagas like "Downton Abbey." A small study from the University of Utah suggests hearing-impaired...
– Do you have your mother’s dimples or your father’s red hair? How do we inherit those traits, and how are we connected to all living things? Families will learn...
Popular descriptions of modern summer skin usually include terms such as "golden" or "sun-kissed." But those phrases would most likely make your great-grandmother shudder.
Adults with hypertension who are age 75 years and older, including those who are frail and with poor overall health, could benefit from lowering their blood pressure below current medical...
A company that got its start as a University of Utah student-led project has won a Utah Innovation Award in the Life Science – Medical Device category. Light Line Catheter...
From month to month and year to year, the tissue in your breasts change. Some of these changes could be breast lumps. How much should you worry about these? And...
Heading out on a summer road trip? You may not realize it, but the windows separating you from the sun's rays aren’t doing a great job of truly protecting you.
In a finding that could lead to better treatment of smoking-related lung diseases, scientists are reporting that about half of current or former smokers with normal lung function have respiratory...
The United States Olympic Committee Today Announced the Addition of the University of Utah Health Care (UUHC) to the National Medical Network. UUHC Will Serve as a National Medical Center...
Electronic cigarettes are exposing young children in the United States to dangerous levels of nicotine. A new study in the journal Pediatrics found the number of poison control cases involving...
. The "A Bill You Can Understand" design and innovation challenge is intended to solicit new approaches and draw national attention to a common complaint with the health care system...
Over the four months of Steve Christiaens’ hospice care, his wife and his nurse forged an intangible bond – personal and profound, but still professional. On Monday night (May 9)...
Despite studies that claim people with cancer are less likely to develop Alzheimer’s disease--raising the possibility that what triggers cancer also prevents the neurodegenerative disorder--a new investigation finds a more...
Millions of prescriptions are written for antibiotics each year and a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows nearly a third of them are unwarranted.
