(Forbes) - In recent years, catheter-directed thrombolysis (CDT) has been added to the current standard of anticoagulation therapy in some patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT). The hope was that...
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Jul 22, 2014
(MedPage Today) - The Alzheimer's disease drug memantine (Namenda) might be worth a look for improving recovery from stroke, a mouse-model study suggested.
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Jul 19, 2014
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Utah now has a second team of specialists to fly with infants and mothers in high-risk pregnancies to the hospital.
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Jul 16, 2014
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - It's a deadly trend that sweeps the nation each summer as the weather heats up: children die after being left in hot cars.
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Jul 08, 2014
(Healio) - Tracking drugs, supplies, and tests is helping health system analysts find ways for hospitals to cut costs in a time when many providers are tightening their belts.
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Jul 03, 2014
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - A potential presidential candidate will join the University of Utah's John A. Moran Eye Center on a medical mission to Guatemala after Congress...
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Jun 30, 2014
(MEDCity News) - SALT LAKE CITY – When a car rolls off an assembly line, the automaker knows exactly what parts, labor and facilities cost. Not so in health care...
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Jun 28, 2014
(USA Today) - SALT LAKE CITY - When a car rolls off an assembly line, the automaker knows exactly what parts, labor and facilities cost. Not so in health care...
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Jun 25, 2014
(The Washington Post) - Hospitals across the country are struggling to deal with a shortage of one of their essential medical supplies. Manufacturers are rationing saline - a product used...
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Jun 25, 2014
(USA Today) - Veterans who suffered brain injuries while in the service were more likely to develop Alzheimer's decades later, according to a new study published Wednesday in the journal...
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Jun 17, 2014
(Fox 13) - FOX 13’s Nineveh Dinha talks with Dr. Majid Moshirfar from the 91Â鶹ÌìÃÀÖ±²¥ Care Moran Eye Center about eye care myths.
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Jun 16, 2014
(Fox 13) - SALT LAKE CITY - Chemicals are mixed into pools to kill bacteria. But the wrong amount of treatment to the water can burn a swimmer’s skin. Chemical...
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Jun 12, 2014
(US Dept. of Veterans Affairs) - 2014 Presidential Scholarship for New Health Services Researchers Megan Vanneman, Ph.D. Dr. Vanneman is a joint postdoctoral fellow in health services research at the...
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Jun 12, 2014
(Counsel & Heal) - Childhood cancer survivors were hospitalized more often and for longer duration, after many years of cancer treatment compared to general population, according to a new study...
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Jun 11, 2014
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A documentary is being produced about the Ogden native's resilience in the face of a life-robbing neurological disorder similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or...
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Jun 10, 2014
(Los Angeles Times) - The male face evolved to withstand the power of the punch, a study suggests
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Jun 09, 2014
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Six months after a historic heart procedure, Ernie Lively is living up to his name.
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Jun 09, 2014
(Smithsonian.com) - While anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are quite good at figuring out how and when humans evolved, figuring out why we are the way we are is much more...
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Jun 06, 2014
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - University of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute has begun construction on a $105 million research wing dedicated to the study of childhood and family cancers ––...
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May 29, 2014
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - With CPR and AED Awareness Week (June 1-7) just around the corner, the American Heart Association would like to congratulate the Utah Legislature and Gov...
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May 29, 2014
(The Wall Street Journal) - LANDOVER, MD – The Epilepsy Foundation announced today that H. Steven White, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology and principal investigator of the National Institutes...
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May 29, 2014
(Science Daily) - Reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) - a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease (CKD) - is an independent risk factor for renal and...
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May 05, 2014
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Dr. Randall J. Olson, professor and chairman of ophthalmology and visual sciences and CEO of the John A. Moran Eye Center at the...
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Apr 30, 2014
(Fox 13) - SALT LAKE CITY - The Food and Drug Administration is advising consumers to beware of false or misleading claims for treating autism.