It’s estimated that 70 percent of people will experience low back pain (LBP) at some point in their lives. People with LBP often visit their primary care doctor in search...
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?
Why don’t elephants get cancer? Pediatric oncologist, Dr. Joshua Schiffman is working to find out! Dr. Schiffman believes that elephants may hold the key to finding new treatments for pediatric...
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...
Diabetes patients whose disease management was overseen by a pharmacist via telemonitoring significantly lowered their A1C levels - a measure of blood sugar - compared to those who received standard...
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...
Positive antibody tests for chlamydia trachomatis in pregnant women were associated with almost a fourfold higher risk for gastroschisis in their newborns, a pilot study found. The study included 33...
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...
University of Utah researchers identified a new potential pain management medication that has implications for the treatment of chronic neuropathic pain due to injury to the nerves, spinal cord or...
Type 2 diabetes patients may do better controlling their blood sugar levels when they receive follow-up primary care from a team of providers led by a clinical pharmacist. Further, a...
The study provides evidence that epinephrine does not degrade after freezing and thawing, the researchers report. This information is beneficial to those who recreate in the backcountry and have the...
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...
Pathogens have evolved multiple means to evade and shut down host immunity. A new study identifies a variety of ways, including amino acid changes on protein surfaces, by which these...
Along with its many other harmful effects, smoking cigarettes appears to adversely affect the outcomes and total costs of patients who undergo surgery for spinal disease.
The connection between cigarette smoking and various cancers long has been established, but whether the habit is a risk for multiple myeloma has been an open question. A new study...
Upon viral invasion, the body launches its defenses in an effort to fight the infection. When a protein called PKR binds double-stranded RNA (dsRNA) made by viruses, the act signals...
In a multi-institution study published in the Journal Clinical of Immunology, University of Utah researchers and colleagues have extended the spectrum of diseases caused by mutations in the RAG1 gene...
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...
