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...
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Jan 26, 2015
(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鈥檚 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鈥檚 disease. These conditions, collectively known as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)...
(Voice of America) - Inflammatory bowel diseases, such as Crohn鈥檚 disease and ulcerative colitis, are extremely painful and can lead to colorectal cancer
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Jan 22, 2015
(NBA) - Utah Jazz forward Trevor Booker will host the first of 10 Jazz Fit clinics in Salt Lake City as part of an NBA health and wellness movement
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Jan 21, 2015
(Fox 13) - A piano sits in the middle of the University of Utah鈥檚 Hospital lobby in Salt Lake City, and an elderly patient regularly volunteers his musical talents to...
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Jan 21, 2015
(KSL) - The health care industry is rife with acronyms: ICU, RN, MD, HMO and PPO just to name a few
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...
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Jan 11, 2015
(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...
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Jan 11, 2015
(Deseret News) - Utah billionaire Jon Huntsman writes about a life spent making a fortune, and giving it away
A discovery by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute shows that looking at whether a man鈥檚 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
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Jan 07, 2015
(Los Angeles Times) - Scientists at the University of Utah seek religious experience - in their subjects' brains
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Jan 05, 2015
(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...