YouScript predictive medication analytics, a clinical decision support tool used by doctors to guide genetic testing and improve drug treatments, has been shown to cut ER visits by almost three-quarters...
The free online learning platform and associated national training pilot, made possible with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, is designed to equip physicians and other professionals on the...
(The New York Times) - When the federal government announced in September that it had abruptly halted a large blood pressure study because its results were so compelling, doctors were...
A new study finds that at least 16.8 million Americans could potentially benefit from lowering their systolic blood pressure (SBP) to 120 mmHg, much lower than current guidelines of 140...
Patients whose blood pressure target was lowered to reach a systolic goal of less than 120 mmHg had their risk for heart attack, heart failure or stroke reduced by 24...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Utahns with heart disease have one more reason to stay inside on bad-air days this winter: Pollution can literally give you a heart attack.
(The New York Times) - Watching the doctor perform is like observing miracles. He has restored eyesight to more than 100,000 people, perhaps more than any doctor in history, and...
Angela Fagerlin, Ph.D., an internationally known researcher at the University of Michigan, will join the University of Utah as the first permanent chair of the School of Medicine's new Department...
(Utah Public Radio) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators, recently wrote a letter to the Federal Trade Commission urging them to investigate a potential breach of antitrust law over...
(The Daily Utah Chronicle) - The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) elected 80 new members on Oct. 19, including two from the U: Mario Capecchi, Nobel laureate, and Vivian Lee...
The Association of Air Medical Services (AAMS) has honored Eric Swanson, M.D., medical director of AirMed and emergency medicine physician at University of Utah Health Care, as the Barbara A...
(Fox News) - Serious reactions to vaccines are rare among children, according to a new review of vaccine safety in kids, which also refutes any link between vaccines and autism.
(Fox News) - Prostate cancer incidence among distant relatives on both sides of a man’s family can help predict whether he will develop the disease, suggests a new study published...
(STAT) - Four US Senators have asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether suppliers of saline solution have illegally inflated prices in order to exploit chronic shortages of the...
(Modern Healthcare) - A bipartisan group of U.S. senators wants the Federal Trade Commission to investigate whether saline solution suppliers have violated antitrust laws by raising prices during a product...
(Modern Healthcare) - When the sedative propofol was frequently in shortage between 2009 and 2014, the scarcity forced hospitals across the country to cancel surgeries as pharmacists struggled to obtain...
Truck drivers who are frequently fatigued after work, use cell phones while driving, or have an elevated pulse pressure – a potential predictor of cardiovascular disease - may be at...
A study led by the University of Utah School of Medicine has identified molecular mechanisms that control an immune cell’s ability to remember. They found that in helper T cells...
Nobel laureate Mario R. Capecchi, Ph.D., and Vivian S. Lee, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., receive the rare honor of being elected to the National Academy of Medicine (NAM).
