Precision medicine promises health care tailored to every individual, a mission that opens exciting possibilities and poses unique challenges. How do we control cost, equalize access to care, and speed...
The University of Utah Hospital is one of 19 transplant hospitals nationwide and the only hospital in Utah named to participate in the COIIN (Collaborative Innovation and Improvement Network) pilot...
New research from the American Association for Cancer Research has added melanoma — the deadliest form of skin cancer — to the list of cancers correlated to alcohol use.
On Dec. 3, 2016, in a ceremony in Salt Lake City, John M. Opitz, M.D., received the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany – also called the...
Scientists from the University of Utah and University of Washington have developed blueprints that instruct human cells to assemble a virus-like delivery system that can transport custom cargo from one...
Religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music, report researchers at the University of Utah School of...
Did you know that all people with diabetes are at risk for vision loss and blindness from diabetic eye disease? African Americans, American Indians and Alaska Natives, Hispanics/Latinos, and older...
School of Dentistry Dean Wyatt Rory Hume, DDS, Ph.D. has agreed to lend his expertise to the additional role of Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and Education
The University of Utah College of Pharmacy’s Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) Program has been awarded a five-year $19.5 million contract renewal with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test...
On Dec. 1-2, national experts in genetics, medicine, law, big data and other will fields gather for Frontiers in Precision Medicine II: Cancer, Big Data and the Public, a unique...
A head injury is any trauma to your scalp, skull, or brain. Head injuries can range in severity from a mild bump on your head to a serious brain injury.
Published in October in Cell as part of a study led by scientists at the University of Utah School of Medicine, the structure reveals how specific mistakes in PKD2 triggers...
For years, scientists have known that someone who is thin could still end up with diabetes. Yet an obese person may be surprisingly healthy. Now, new research led by scientists...
For 2017, 91Â鶹ÌìÃÀÖ±²¥ Plans (UUHP) will expand its presence in the Utah market by continuing to offer Individual Plan products alongside SelectHealth and Molina.
"In many cases melanomas are the ugly duckling on the body. People can sometimes pick them out even from an untrained eye," Julia Curtis, MD, assistant director of the mole...
As the temperature drops but before the snow falls, more and more people are hitting the gym instead of the trail. Weightlifting has multiple potential benefits - it may increase...
In the past decade, ophthalmologists have been prescribing nutritional supplements to be taken daily to prevent or slow vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Now, using nutritional supplements for...
Carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning kills more than 400 people according to the CDC and is responsible for over 50,000 emergency department visits2 nationwide each year.
For seemingly no physical reason, you find yourself paralyzed and can't speak. It sounds like the plot of a horror movie, but such frightening symptoms can actually happen to people...
