Carrie Byington, M.D., becomes Chair of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Infectious Diseases on July 1.

Patients who have post-operative complications following high-risk surgery have a significantly lower risk of being readmitted to the hospital within 30 days if they go see their primary care physician...

Published online in Cell Reports on June 19, Huntsman Cancer Institute investigators report that misregulation of two genes, sox2 and lkb1, drives squamous cell lung cancer in mice. The discovery...

Senior Director of Marketing for University of Utah Health Care Dennis Jolley was named one of the 2014 Top Hospital Marketers at the Hospital Marketing National Convention.

A new campaign launched by the Utah Department of Health’s (UDOH) Cancer Control Program (UCCP) and Utah’s local health departments features pediatricians telling parents about the importance of getting their...

Dr. Wendy Chapman and Dr. Wendy Hobson-Rohrer are now a part of the 2014 Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Fellowship.

For patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D), the very drug on which their life depends - injectable insulin - can create complications. Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) initiative has...

New space to study children's and families' cancers, advance risk assessment and prevention, develop pre-clinical research models, increase advanced therapeutics, improve survivorship, address health disparities, and create new biotechnology center

Four new genes have been added to the growing list of those known to cause increased breast cancer risk when mutated through the efforts of researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute...

2012 Pew Scholar in Biomedical Science discusses his work to understand conflicts between pathogens and cells.

University of Utah Health Care is one of several prestigious health care systems featured in the article by Thomas H. Lee and Toby Cosgrove, titled "Engaging Doctors in the Health...

This op-ed by Lillian Kohr and Bob Cash first appeared in the Salt Lake Tribune May 25th, 2014.

University of Utah Hospital was named by Becker's Hospital Review and Axial Exchange as one of the 100 best hospitals for patient engagement.

Researchers have found that the reduction of a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease is an independent risk factor for renal and urothelial cancer.

Scientists at the University of Utah (U of U), the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and colleagues have developed a powerful tool called pVAAST that combines...

Utah physician assistant honored for bringing medical care to disadvantaged communities in Ghana.

It was long assumed that the joining of egg and sperm launched a dramatic change in how and which genes were expressed. Instead, new research shows that totipotency is a...

Mice severely disabled by a condition similar to multiple sclerosis (MS) could walk less than two weeks following treatment with human stem cells. The finding, which uncovers new avenues for...

Researchers show that a variation in IFITM3 gene is associated with coronary artery lesions in patients with Kawasaki disease.

University of Utah Health Care (UHCC), along with thousands of hospitals across the United States is celebrating Hospital Week.

Students from the University of Utah College of Nursing head to Washington D.C. to learn how to make their voices heard.

The University of Utah College of Nursing Alumni Association presents the 2014 Dare to Care Award to Dianne Fuller, DNP, APRN, FNP-C.

Barbara Wirostko, M.D., a clinical adjunct associate professor at the University of Utah School of Medicine Department of Ophthalmology, saw an opportunity to learn more about glaucoma through using a...

The University of Utah's M.E. Hartnett, M.D., is organizing and moderating a cross-disciplinary symposium that addresses retinopathy of prematurity: the epidemiology, environmental effects from oxygen and nutrition, stem cell studies...