A proven leader in health care transformation, Michael K. Magill, M.D., and the physician who led University of Utah Health Care in the transition of its electronic medical records, Michael...
Researchers have discovered that adding lovastatin, a widely used cholesterol-lowering drug, to traditional antimalarial treatment decreases neuroinflammation and protects against cognitive impairment in a mouse model of cerebral malaria.
(Voice of America) - Each year, an estimated 500,000 children in sub-Saharan Africa develop the most serious form of malaria, so-called cerebral malaria. Experts say many of those who do...
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - A 15-year-old howler monkey at Utah's Hogle Zoo is breathing easier after surgery Tuesday, during which a severe case of sinusitis was cleared out.
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - There could be a surprising new weapon in the fight against cancer. Initial tests show the HIV virus can drastically minimize, and even help...
(Deseret News) - Remember how you spent hours and hours sitting at the piano? Or think about how you spent hours and hours practicing for a particular sport or dance...
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - A Utah hospital system launched a new tool that will make it easier for patients to select a doctor who best fits their needs.
A new study led by a University of Utah neurologist shows that the auras that presage migraine attacks are caused by a wave of brain activity that causes nerve cells...
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...
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - In the last ten years, rates of children born with autism have started to increase, creeping from roughly 1 in 150 kids in 2000...
(Fox 13) - SALT LAKE CITY - Nearly 11 percent of babies born in Utah are premature, costing insurance companies and parents both money and time. While that number is...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - At least three private colleges see Utah as fertile ground for new physician training programs that could provide the state's first alternatives to the University...
(Medical Express) - In a discovery that can fundamentally change how drugs for arthritis, and potentially many other diseases, are made, University of Utah medical researchers have identified a way...
