Longtime College of Pharmacy faculty member and researcher Karen Wilcox, Ph.D., has accepted the position of chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, effective Jan. 15, 2015.
(KSL) - Utah has a serious shortage of doctors. One prescription for change: expand the class size and the number of students who qualify for in-state tuition at the University...
Scientists at the University of Utah and the University of Georgia have uncovered a pharmacological target that could enable development of novel drugs against antibiotic-resistant pathogens, including Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus...
(Medical Express) - Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have found that defects in how cells are squeezed out of overcrowded tissue to die, a...
(Deseret News) - The Utah Legislature will take on Gov. Gary Herbert's Healthy Utah plan as it determines how to provide health insurance to the state's more than 100,000 uninsured.
The Genetics Society of America has named University of Utah Research Associate Professor Louisa A. Stark as the recipient of this year’s Elizabeth W. Jones Award for Excellence in Education.
As many as 1.4 million Americans suffer from uncomfortable abdominal cramping and diarrhea that come with ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease. These conditions, collectively known as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...
(Voice of America) - Inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, are extremely painful and can lead to colorectal cancer
(Fox 13) - A piano sits in the middle of the University of Utah’s Hospital lobby in Salt Lake City, and an elderly patient regularly volunteers his musical talents to...
University of Utah Health Care is pleased to announce that Chad Westover, M.P.A, has accepted the position of Health Plan CEO. He joins the University on February 2.
Hosted by University of Utah School of Medicine and faculty from the Divisions of Cardiothoracic Surgery and Cardiology, cardiology professionals from around the world will gather to learn and exchange...
(Utah Policy) - It turns out Utah is one of the brightest stars when it comes to health care too-the state rises above the rest in rankings for both resident...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - The chief executive of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah gushed at a news conference that a new partnership with...
A discovery by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute shows that looking at whether a man’s uncles and great-grandparents, among other second- and third-degree relatives, had prostate cancer could be as...
(Deseret News) - The number of women choosing to give birth outside hospitals each year has doubled since 1990, according to a recent Utah Department of Health study
(Deseret News) - WEST VALLEY CITY - On a plaza outside of a Utah chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness, three teenagers with depression joined their peers to...
