On October 4, best-selling author Christie Aschwanden will give a talk on the strange science of sports recovery followed by a panel discussion with faculty from the College of Health...
The University of Utah Health-produced short documentary One in a Million has been an official selection at eight film festivals nationwide and has received 12 marketing awards.
Clement Chow, PhD, and his research team have developed a fly model of NGLY1 deficiency, to provide new insights into the biology underlying this devastating, autosomal recessive, genetic disorder.
A bill informally called “Marley and Tyler’s Bill”, after two patients seen by the Penelope Program, passed the Utah legislature to expand insurance coverage for testing needed to diagnose children...
The Medical Group partners to provide care in ways patients are coming to expect. These partnerships come under the banner of innovation—but it isn’t innovation for innovation’s sake. Like true...
Nanell Mann began getting urinary tract infections in 1971, when she got a hysterectomy following the birth of her sixth child. She would take antibiotics and get better. Get sick...
With trainees collectively earning $110 million in grant funding, the U’s Vice President’s Clinical and Translational Scholars Program is proving to be effective at building leaders in research.
Utah is among a handful of states that has seen a marked increase since 2000 in deaths of despair—so-called because of their link to suicide, drugs, and alcohol.
Known as “the ambidextrous Irishman,” Edward Hashimoto, MD, was a popular professor of anatomy at University of Utah School of Medicine for more than 50 years. This new exhibit of...
The GSLC will work collaboratively with the All of Us Engagement Team to create educational materials on genetics and precision medicine for the public, patients and healthcare providers.
As Redwood Health Center’s refugee coordinator, Anna Gallegos has learned valuable lessons that can help all of us better care for refugees and vulnerable populations. Here are three suggestions to...
The difference between general internal medicine, family medicine, or even pediatrics and community medicine, can be confusing for patients. That’s why a group of clinical leaders convened to try something...
A Patient-Centered Medical Home is a team-based health care delivery model that emphasizes access and continuity, care coordination, collaboration, and patient involvement in improving and maintaining patient health.
The Mountain West has disproportionately high rates of depressive disorders and suicide. Researchers are trying to find out why. Turns out, the mountains themselves might have something to do with...
Cancer patients at Huntsman Cancer Institute find healing through the reflective writing and poetry workshops of HCI resident writer, Susan Sample, assistant professor in the Division of General Internal Medicine...
