Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson recalls the Orangeburg massacre, his childhood and the end of “Jim Crow” era of government-sanctioned oppression to illustrate how far the country has come in...
University of Utah pediatrician and Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs Carrie Byington, M.D. reflects on her career path and the obstacles she overcame as a Mexican-American woman growing up...
Women make most family health decisions and largely dictate how the country's health dollars are spent. But they have decidedly less influence in how major health organizations are run. Why...
“Undergraduates rarely are exposed to clinical research, and that’s threatening our pipeline for clinical investigators,” says pediatrician Carrie Byington, M.D., co-principal investigator of the Utah Center for Clinical and Translational...
Why some small Utah providers took the risk of participating in Medicare pilot payment models: Because it is the wave of the future and they are committed to success.
Doctors and researchers frown on the false logic of anecdotes—the "N of 1" stories that spread like a virus to undermine science and sound reasoning. But is there a place...
Astrophysicist, biologist, computer scientist, genetic virologist, glaciologist, molecular animator—what do you imagine when you hear these words? “What do you see when you picture a scientist?” asks TED writer Karen...
It’s true. There are countless reasons to feel overwhelmed and disheartened with the current state of health care. So many external factors are swirling around at once. The path of...
What are the game-changing algorithms in health care? No ranking is perfect. Ours is bound to stir dissent. But don’t let us be the judge. What’s in your top 10?
Carla Thorne became a foster Mom not intending to adopt children but “to give some parents a chance to get right with their lives.” Similarly, University of Utah pediatrics professor...
Academic research can be a solitary pursuit, cloistered in clinics and labs physically—and intellectually—distant from patients. But what if the patients themselves worked the science? Helped test the equipment and...
Not actionable. Matt and Cristina Might would like to see those words stricken from medicine’s vernacular. To parents of children with ill-defined diseases, those words are disempowering, signaling another dead...
Michael Cohen felt something wrong with his chest and made an appointment to get it checked out with his primary care physician. His doctor suspected acid reflux, and ordered a...
Government regulators monitor it. Insurers have strong opinions about it. Consumers need information about it to guide their medical decisions. But what is quality health care?
A dying beast? Fated for extinction? Dead on arrival? The recent musings of industry analysts about the future of academic medical centers (AMCs) inspire more panic than confidence these days...
Cynthia Furse’s teenage daughter was skilled in math and science and had voiced an interest in engineering. But based on a career aptitude test that showed she liked helping people...
There have been more medical advances since World War II than in all of history – achievements driven by basic research at academic medical centers, which must rise again to...
Animated, criss-crossing the auditorium and filling the room with praise, Michael Porter, Ph.D., seemed more like a coach pumping up his team before the big game, than a Harvard Business...
Academia is hierarchical, a space where faculty are judged by the size of their NIH grants and research portfolios. But entrepreneurs can have just as great an impact on patient...
Suleika Jaouad's future was exceptionally bright. She had just graduated from Princeton, moved to Paris and was on her way to northern Africa to launch her dream of becoming a...
How can the field of medicine eliminate waste when students aren't being trained on the best practices to do so? Dr. Vineet Arora tells us about the Choosing Wisely Challenge...
