(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Kimberly Butler agonized over which medical specialty to choose, though, looking back, the decision was obvious, even inevitable.
Mayor Peter Corroon announced today the launch of a new mobile mental health crisis unit that will help increase access to mental health services for county residents
University of Utah Health Sciences colleges and programs remain among the best in the nation for training health care providers in physician assistant, nurse midwifery, pharmacy, primary care, and other...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Morning sun peeks through the blinds of an infusion room as Brenda Olson settles in for a two-hour intravenous dose of Doxil.
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - For the first time, Salt Lake County residents will have somewhere to turn besides an emergency room or 911 when they or their loved ones...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A newspaper ad prompted 83-year-old Wanda Parkinson of Kearns to volunteer for a lung cancer study. Marcia Michael, a 75-year-old Holladay resident, talked her doctor...
Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah is now offering lung cancer screening using low-radiation CT (computed tomography) technology.
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Scott Youngquist is trained to save lives, not pull teeth. But rarely does the emergency-room doctor end a 12-hour shift at University Hospital without seeing...
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - It used to be called "mass hysteria," and there are famous cases of it in centuries past. This condition, now known as conversion disorder...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Ogden - By the time Camilla Black Grondahl became pregnant with her second child in 2010, she had already watched two older sisters bury sons...
(Deseret News) - I think another definition of a good death is that all the decision makers have arrived at a place of peace in their hearts. – Dr. Joan...
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it’s still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. – Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it’s still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. – Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
Through a combined community outreach effort, the University of Utah's Department of Dental Education recently provided free dental care to 90 underserved kids in the community
(NPR) - It's a new kind of brinksmanship for U.S. doctors: caring for patients with life-threatening diseases when the supply of critical drugs threatens to disappear.
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Cancer doctors who want to give patients new "smart" drugs in their offices - a practice now forbidden in Utah - will soon take their...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - BRIGHTON - Tucker, the 4-month-old black Labrador Retriever, locked his legs and did his best to get off of his leash as Lauren Edwards pulled...
(KSL) - SOUTH JORDAN - The new 208,000-square-foot South Jordan Health Center officially opened its doors Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The center, which is University of Utah Health Care's...
(U.S. Pharmacist) - The United States is currently experiencing the most severe shortages of certain drugs in its history. Maybe this is not “news” in the sense that an inability...
Professor of biochemistry Dana Carroll, Ph.D., has been chosen for the 2012 Novitski Prize, an award from the Genetics Society of America (GSA) that recognizes "extraordinary creativity and intellectual ingenuity...
Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are able to trigger bladder cell shedding and disable...
