There is a gaping hole in the biomedical sciences that desperately needs to be filled. Only 0.6 percent of scientists and 0.3 percent of physicians are Native Americans, making them...
(The Washington Post) - Emergency rooms are health care鈥檚 front line - in the United States, there are nearly 45 ER visits per 100 people in any given year. But...
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Jan 22, 2016
(FiveThirtyEight) - Keeping people at home is the goal of Memorial Hospital of Sweetwater County and the Huntsman Cancer Institute. On Thursday, officials celebrated this new partnership.
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Jan 22, 2016
(NPR) - Stillbirth remains largely hidden from society, and the tragic loss of a fetus late in pregnancy remains far too common.
The campaign to immunize children to protect against the cancer-causing human papillomavirus (HPV) has never quite gone mainstream. And new research from University of Utah College of Nursing Assistant Professor...
(Daily Mail) - Many of us think of baking soda as little more than a vital part of the recipe to make cakes and cookies. But a new study has...
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Jan 20, 2016
(KSL) - Jerry Griffiths sits lovingly by his wife's bedside at the Huntsman Cancer Institute waiting for her to wake up. By now, the drill is all too common. Kristie...
Research to Prevent Blindness (RPB) has awarded a grant of $115,000 to the John A. Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah to support research into the causes, treatment...
(The Boston Globe) - Imagine rushing a loved one to the emergency room, only to find treatment is impossible because a needed drug is out of stock.
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Jan 16, 2016
(Modern Health Care) - When Salt Lake City residents search the Web for physician reviews, they're likely to come across a set of ratings from an unlikely source: the University...
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Jan 15, 2016
(USA Today) - The West Coast offense is employed by nearly half of the NFL -- and researchers found that it could be putting players on those teams at risk.
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Jan 15, 2016
(Deseret News) - There was controversy from the moment Gardasil hit the market in 2006. Ten years later, doctors and nurses are still trying to fight lingering misinformation that has...
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Jan 14, 2016
(Fox 13) - Dr. David Smart with University of Utah Dermatology tells us why now is the best time to treat damaged skin. Winter is a great time to focus...
Combat veterans from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan experienced an average of 21 blasts from improvised explosive devices (IEDs) during the course of their military service. While the explosions...
(The Boston Globe) - The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus is ending its elephant acts a year and a half early, and will retire all of its touring...
(ABC 4) - It鈥檚 no secret that many people receive a mental boost when they spend time outside, whether they鈥檙e rafting down a river, hiking through Zion National Park, or...
On Jan. 14-15, the University of Utah School of Medicine will become the worldwide focus of heart recovery medicine when leading scientists and clinicians from across the globe come to...
Winter can be a tough time. Days are shorter. Nights are longer. And here in Utah, the inversion makes it feel like we rarely see the sun. That can lead...
Winter is a rough time for people with rosacea. The roughly 14 million sufferers in the U.S. brace for redness and bumps to appear on their skin during the cold...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A Utah transplant who came to the state to run competitively for the University of Utah, BJ Christenson still remembers the first time he ran...
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Jan 03, 2016
(Deseret News) - How healthy is the food you're buying? You have the nutrition label on that box of Frosted Flakes, but do you know how to count the calories...