(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Vice President Joe Biden will visit the Huntsman Cancer Institute in Salt Lake City next week to spotlight the administration's "moonshot" effort to cure cancer.
(Deseret News) - The future of successful treatment for Utah’s mentally ill is at severe risk should House Bill 18 pass through the 2016 Utah legislative session.
(Medscape) - A multipronged quality improvement project, including the use of a value-driven outcomes computer tool, can decrease the number of laboratory tests and associated costs during hospital admissions, according...
(Bloomberg) - Vivian Lee, chief executive officer at University of Utah Health Care, talks about advances made in the fight against cancer, the state of health care in the United...
(Herald Journal) - The legislative session’s third medical marijuana bill passed unanimously through its Senate committee Tuesday, a resolution urging Congress to reclassify marijuana from its current Schedule I classification...
(Calgary Herald) - Stroke is a leading cause of death and disability worldwide. Reducing this burden requires high-quality medical care not only to prevent this disease, but also to provide...
(MedPage Today) - Heart attack patients are more likely to die or return to the hospital in the first 60 days after discharge if they had cardiogenic shock but the...
(Cardiovascular Business) - A cross-sectional, population-based study found that 16.8 million U.S. adults may benefit from lowering their systolic blood pressure goal to less than 120 mm Hg based on...
(ABC 4) - How does poor air quality impact the average person's health? Robert Paine, Chief of The University of Utah Health Care Division of Pulmonary, says it all comes...
(Herald Journal) - A quickly spreading outbreak of the mosquito-borne illness known as the Zika virus has the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention releasing travel advisories for Central and...
(Moab Sun News) - A new regional health coalition working to address one of Moab’s top community health concerns is bringing two addiction medicine specialists from the University of Utah...
(MedPage Today) - Stroke care coordinated regionally to cover primary prevention to rehabilitation and ensure appropriate interventions, such as thrombolysis and stroke unit care, was associated with lower stroke mortality...
(Modern Healthcare) - The U.S. might face fewer vaccine shortages if government agencies were willing to pay more for the vital drugs, according to a recent study. The reasoning is...
(KSL) - Until a few weeks ago, many people had probably never heard of the Zika virus, which was first diagnosed in the 1940s. Now, the number of cases have...
(Fierce Health News) - The University of Utah's University Hospital could cut costs by as much as $1.5 million a year on its laboratory costs by using a software system...