(The Salt Lake Tribune) - At age 9, Jack Wolfinger is on his fifth dinosaur encyclopedia. He can explain the lineage of raptors but doesn't play with other kids at...
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Apr 19, 2012
(U.S. News & World Report) - Magnetically controlled growing rods can treat the spinal disorder scoliosis in children without the need for repeat invasive surgeries, a small new study suggests.
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Apr 19, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Marc Porter is a smart chemist, but he can't solve the diagnostic puzzle of pancreatic cancer on his own. He needs surgeons, molecular biologists, oncologists...
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Apr 12, 2012
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - A Colorado man says he’s lucky to be alive after doctors at the University of Utah performed a rare surgery to save his...
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Apr 12, 2012
(The Wall Street Journal) - Doctors increasingly are recommending physical activity to help osteoarthritis patients, overturning the more traditional medical advice for people to take it easy to protect their...
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Apr 10, 2012
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Beginning the fall of 2013, the University of Utah will open a School of Dentistry with an inaugural class of 20 students.
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Apr 06, 2012
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Atticus Teter believes skin cancer happens to "old people." But he cares enough to help change that perception, with an award-winning illustration of...
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Apr 03, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A woman is acting strangely at an art gallery so the business owner calls the mental health crisis line. A crisis team is dispatched and...
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Apr 02, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Not all body fat is bad, but if it's inside your muscles, it can be very bad indeed.
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Mar 29, 2012
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - In Utah, one in 47 children has autism, the highest rate among 14 communities nationwide, according to a newly released study.
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Mar 24, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - As Ed Clark makes his hospital rounds, checking in on children who need ventilators for their asthma or on the premature babies in intensive care...
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Mar 22, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - As part of National Poison Prevention Week that runs through Saturday, Macey's, Fresh Market, Dick's Market, Dan's and Lin's Market are working with the University...
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Mar 16, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Kimberly Butler agonized over which medical specialty to choose, though, looking back, the decision was obvious, even inevitable.
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Mar 13, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Morning sun peeks through the blinds of an infusion room as Brenda Olson settles in for a two-hour intravenous dose of Doxil.
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Mar 13, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - For the first time, Salt Lake County residents will have somewhere to turn besides an emergency room or 911 when they or their loved ones...
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Mar 10, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A newspaper ad prompted 83-year-old Wanda Parkinson of Kearns to volunteer for a lung cancer study. Marcia Michael, a 75-year-old Holladay resident, talked her doctor...
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Mar 06, 2012
(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) - 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
(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. – Dr. Joan...
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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’s still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. – Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
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Feb 26, 2012
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it’s still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. – Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
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Feb 16, 2012
(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.