The Division of Public Health at the University of Utah announced a partnership today with the Utah Department of Health to train and field more than 100 contact tracers in...
(KSL Studio 5) - Having a stroke is scary, but you can drastically improve the odds of recovery when you know what to look for. Whether it be yourself or...
Marla De Jong, Ph.D., RN, FAAN Colonel (Ret.), a lifelong leader in the field of nursing, has been named dean of the University of Utah College of Nursing effective August...
On the "U Rising" podcast, President Ruth V. Watkins engages in insightful conversations with students, staff, faculty, alumni and community stakeholders who are at the center of the state's flagship...
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Jun 11, 2020
The University of Utah’s research community participated this week in #ShutDownAcademia, a day dedicated to conversations about the Black Lives Matter movement. Salt Lake Tribune
If you are fitness-minded and counting your steps, you may have heard the recommendation of 10,000 steps a day, but where did that number come from and is it really...
If your child has a cleft lip or cleft palate, the surgeries they need will depend on their age and the severity of the cleft. Your doctor will develop a...
Â鶹ѧÉú¾«Æ·°æ is accepting cloth face covering donations to help reserve proper protected personnel equipment (PPE) for staff who need medical grade masks to protect themselves from COVID-19...
In August of 2012 Samantha Guillory (her friends call her Sam) was preparing to start her senior year of high school. A star catcher on the Juab High School softball...
Individuals tested for COVID-19 at Â鶹ѧÉú¾«Æ·°æ’s Redwood Center in-car testing site may now participate in a study that evaluates whether saliva and other specimen types can be...
An international team of researchers including Â鶹ѧÉú¾«Æ·°æ scientists report that they have developed the world’s smallest, fully functional version of insulin.
Â鶹ѧÉú¾«Æ·°æ today announced that it has opened the B-50 COVID-19 Unit, a mixed acuity unit within University Hospital to treat COVID-19 confirmed positive patients only.
Despite improvements in their performance over the past decade, electronic health records (EHRs) commonly used in hospitals nationwide fail to detect up to one in three potentially harmful drug interactions...
A team of researchers at Â鶹ѧÉú¾«Æ·°æ have shown the Epstein-Barr virus — which causes mononucleosis and is linked to development of several cancers — uses a novel...
Â鶹ѧÉú¾«Æ·°æ and the Craig H. Neilsen Foundation celebrated the opening of the Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital today, transforming the University of Utah into one of the...
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic began its attack on the Navajo Nation. Having recently moved to Salt Lake City from the Navajo reservation, I felt helpless from afar. I...
Â鶹ѧÉú¾«Æ·°æ is changing the hours of operation at COVID-19 in-car testing sites to better meet the needs of patients and staff. U of U Health began operating...
When you can be around others (end home isolation) depends on different factors for different situations. Find CDC's recommendations for your situation below.
Theresa L. Werner, MD, of the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, talks about encouraging patients with ovarian cancer to take part in clinical trials, reassuring them they...
Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in children (MIS-C) is a new type of health condition associated with COVID-19 that's being diagnosed among a small number of children across the world. A panel...
Theresa L. Werner, MD, of the Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah, talks about why immunotherapy is not a mainstay of treatment for ovarian cancer as it is...
