(KUTV) - It's Colon Cancer Awareness Month, and we had Dr. Michael Walker, a gastroenterologist at the University of Utah Health Center in studio to help debunk myths about colonoscopies.
(tctmd) - Patients with higher visit-to-visit variability in blood pressure have an elevated incident stroke risk, regardless of how aggressively they are treated with antihypertensives, an analysis of the SPRINT...
(Fox 13) - A new study suggests that feeding your baby peanut-type food, like peanut butter mixed with water, at only 4-6 months old is likely to prevent them from...
(The New York Times) - The world has been galvanized by the Zika epidemic spreading through the Americas, which has left more than 2,000 infants with severe brain damage. But...
(Fox 13) - MURRAY, Utah - FOX 13 News' Dave Nemeth spoke with dermatologist Dr. Aaron Kobernick about allergies at the Family Skin and Vision Health Fair, Monday afternoon.
(Deseret News) - Laurie Falk, left, and Morgan Sidwell demonstrate the new Multitom Rax Twin Robotic X-ray System at University Hospital in Salt Lake City on Friday.
(Deseret News) - The ROPES course at University Neuropsychiatric Institute was used by the Utah Ulster Project as part of their team building activities.
(Deseret News) - Despite huge strides in medicine, doctors today are still regularly confounded with what seems to be a simple task: diagnosing infectious diseases.
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A proposal to legalize medical marijuana that's inching forward in the state Legislature has some Utahns with chronic pain and epilepsy rejoicing, while wary lawmakers...
(Fox 13) - While many organs are donated after a person passes away, University of Utah Health Care recently performed their first live-donor liver transplant. It’s a fairly rare operation...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A wisdom tooth is beginning to force its way to the surface on the top left side of Stephanie Mora's jaw. Left alone, it would...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - In "Physician-assisted suicide is a danger that extends beyond the patient" (Feb. 21), family physician Brian Zehnder claims that HB264, the "End of Life Options...
(STAT) - Joe Biden talks a lot about the potential for “big data” to accelerate the fight against cancer. On Friday, he spent time learning about a model of that...
(U.S. News & World Report) - President Barack Obama sketched out an ambitious vision of medical research Thursday powered by a vast pool of research volunteers, a growing understanding of...
(Deseret News) - A committee of lawmakers overwhelmingly voted down a bill Tuesday that would have implemented a comprehensive sex education program in Utah schools.
(Chemical & Engineering News) - Mitochondria, a cell’s power plants, have been implicated in several neurodegenerative diseases. In Alzheimer’s disease, dysfunctioning mitochondria produce abnormally high levels of reactive oxidative species...
(The New York Times) - Whooping cough, a potentially life-threatening childhood illness, all but disappeared in the 1940s after a vaccine was developed. Why is it making a comeback now...
(Healthline) - Researchers say they now have data to back up their contention that a vaccine for the human papillomavirus (HPV) can significantly reduce the disease in teenage girls and...
