After giving birth to her fifth child, Breanne Miller expected to hear the familiar cries of her newborn ringing throughout the delivery room. However, her son Jensen was delivered completely...
That night in November 2017 was like so many others for Dallan Isom, a 29-year-old father from Bountiful, Utah. He played basketball with some friends to relieve stress, and around...
Jean Atkinson and her husband were working side by side on their computers one evening when she grew tired and told him she was going to bed. "I knew immediately...
It was just another day at the pub in Boise, Idaho and Kerry Caldwell, the Brew Master, was making a batch of beer. As she was stirring the wort—beer before...
At 61 years old, Laurie Sonneborn was wary about common yet deadly ailments, such as cancer or a heart attack. As she puts it, a stroke was not on her...
On a routine fishing trip with her father, eight-year-old River Henderson began to feel a pain in her left shoulder. Assuming she had just pulled a muscle, her family had...
When Brock Jones noticed his sunken chest cavity, he knew he wanted the repair surgery. Pectus Excavatum is a common chest wall deformity. Surgery helps kids like Brock avoid breathing...
Utah State Senate Majority Leader Ralph Okerlund is used to being in the news during the legislative session. But on the last day of the session in 2014, he made...
After attending a one-day class at the University of Utah Diabetes Center, Carlye not only understood better her condition and how to manage it, she also found a community she...
Allen Hampton and his wife Sharyn had just finished having lunch in Park City and were preparing to return to their home in Ogden when he started to feel strange.
Although she belongs to the larger community of transgender individuals, Josie is one of a kind: she is the first patient ever to undergo comprehensive gender confirmation surgery at University...
It started with a blister under the tongue, but Megan Ollett didn't suspect there was any reason to be concerned. In 2012, she had just turned 30, gotten married, and...
Instead of reveling in the anticipation of life after high school, Lauren Scoffield Warner found out she needed a liver transplant at age 18. After a childhood of competitive soccer...
Mallory Wright doesn't tell the story often — it's almost too crazy to believe. But even if it sounds preposterous to say out loud, she knows she did it for...
Welster Santos couldn't figure out why he was feeling so sluggish. He was an active 68-year-old guy who loved going on extensive three-day hikes with a group of buddies, a...
In his late 20s, Parker Donat was an active guy known for his dedicated gym routine. By age 33, he was struggling to keep up with his wife Kristi during...
It was one of those cold October mornings where everything was frozen in ice. Alec McMorris, a construction worker, left his house for work and headed straight up Parleys Canyon...
It was a beautiful Saturday in Elko, Nevada when Ashley Biehl had her first softball practice of the season. It was on the bike ride home that Ashley started to...
In summer 2016, Will began to notice some changes in his body. Lately he hadn't been able to run very fast, or far or long, and he began to experience...
Speedskating's latest phenom is not what you would expect. At just 18 years old, standing 5 feet 6 inches tall, Maame Biney is the first African American woman to represent...
Olympic athletes have to be at the top of their abilities when it comes time to compete. University of Utah Health is dedicated to treating these athletes as part of...
After 8 weeks in the hospital, 13 operations, and 6 months of bed rest, the efforts to save Jeff Sena's leg were all in vain. In April 1991, the medical...
Since the age of nine, Mitch Whitmore dreamed about representing his country on the world's biggest athletic stage, the Olympic Games. He has already competed in two Olympics in the...