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...
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Feb 29, 2012
(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...
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Feb 27, 2012
(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. 鈥 Dr. Joan...
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Feb 27, 2012
(Deseret News) - NORMAN, OKLA. - As they walked down the tile corridor, 12-year-old Vivian Lee stayed close on the heels of Dr. Hal Belknap.
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Feb 27, 2012
(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...
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Feb 26, 2012
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it鈥檚 still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. 鈥 Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
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Feb 26, 2012
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it鈥檚 still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. 鈥 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.
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Feb 11, 2012
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - A once vibrant 14-year-old is often too sick to get out of bed. Her health has been off and on like that for...
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Feb 04, 2012
(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...
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Jan 31, 2012
(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...
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Jan 21, 2012
(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 91麻豆天美直播 Care's...
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Jan 20, 2012
(U.S. Pharmacist) - The United States is currently experiencing the most severe shortages of certain drugs in its history. Maybe this is not 鈥渘ews鈥 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...
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Jan 04, 2012
(The New York Times) - Can the right sonata soothe the pain of a medical operation?
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Jan 04, 2012
(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...