Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah is now offering lung cancer screening using low-radiation CT (computed tomography) technology.
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Scott Youngquist is trained to save lives, not pull teeth. But rarely does the emergency-room doctor end a 12-hour shift at University Hospital without seeing...
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - It used to be called "mass hysteria," and there are famous cases of it in centuries past. This condition, now known as conversion disorder...
(Deseret News) - I think another definition of a good death is that all the decision makers have arrived at a place of peace in their hearts. – Dr. Joan...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Ogden - By the time Camilla Black Grondahl became pregnant with her second child in 2010, she had already watched two older sisters bury sons...
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it’s still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. – Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it’s still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. – Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
Through a combined community outreach effort, the University of Utah's Department of Dental Education recently provided free dental care to 90 underserved kids in the community
(NPR) - It's a new kind of brinksmanship for U.S. doctors: caring for patients with life-threatening diseases when the supply of critical drugs threatens to disappear.
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Cancer doctors who want to give patients new "smart" drugs in their offices - a practice now forbidden in Utah - will soon take their...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - BRIGHTON - Tucker, the 4-month-old black Labrador Retriever, locked his legs and did his best to get off of his leash as Lauren Edwards pulled...
(KSL) - SOUTH JORDAN - The new 208,000-square-foot South Jordan Health Center officially opened its doors Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The center, which is University of Utah Health Care's...
(U.S. Pharmacist) - The United States is currently experiencing the most severe shortages of certain drugs in its history. Maybe this is not “news” in the sense that an inability...
Professor of biochemistry Dana Carroll, Ph.D., has been chosen for the 2012 Novitski Prize, an award from the Genetics Society of America (GSA) that recognizes "extraordinary creativity and intellectual ingenuity...
Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are able to trigger bladder cell shedding and disable...
The Wilderness Medical Society is partnering with the University of Utah, University of Colorado, International Society of Mountain Medicine (ISMM), International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR), and Union Internationale des...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The University of Utah's medical school is among more than 100 nationwide uniting to improve health care for America's veterans under...
Distraction is a proven pain reliever, and a new study reported in The Journal of Pain concludes that listening to music can be effective for reducing pain
(Huffington Post) - Obese people who had weight-loss surgery were less likely to later suffer a heart attack or stroke, or to die from one, compared to people who did...
(Reuters) - Obese people who had weight-loss surgery were less likely to later suffer a heart attack or stroke, or to die from one, compared to people who did not...
