Carbon monoxide (CO), sometimes referred to as the silent killer, causes more than 100,000 emergency department visits in the United States and at least 420 deaths each year.
Nearly every day in every corner of Utah, young athletes train or compete in the outdoors, breathing in air that may be, at times, laden with fine particulate matter, dust...
Thousands of new Utah patients are approved for an active medical cannabis card every month. But much remains unknown about how cannabis interacts with other medications, what other factors increase...
More than 400,000 Utahns are family caregivers. In recognition of their contributions and sacrifices, Gov. Spencer Cox declared November 2023 as Family Caregiver Month in Utah.
Monica Bertagnolli, MD, 1985 graduate of the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine, was confirmed as 16th director of the National Institutes of Health.
Check out November's highlighted foundation funding, including opportunities from: W.M. Keck Foundation, Glenn Foundation/AFAR, Autism Science Foundation, and Rita Allen Foundation.
ARUP Laboratories developed the first-ever, FDA-approved diagnostic test that identifies patients who are eligible for a new gene therapy treatment for severe hemophilia A.
Is money really the root of all evil? The seventh part of the Life Agenda series offers advice for having a healthy relationship with our financial resources.
The Health Sciences Center DNA Sequencing Core at the University of Utah provides options for sequencing to members of the university community and surrounding areas. Their services offer sequencing through...
A highly effective lung cancer screen could prevent up to a fifth of lung cancer deaths, but is underused nationwide. Researchers at University of Utah Health have designed new digital...
Randall Peterson, PhD, embarks on his second term as dean for the College of Pharmacy. He reflects on community collaborations, therapeutics, First Year Free, and other first-term highlights.
Monica Bertagnolli, M.D., a 1985 graduate of the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, was confirmed today by the U.S. Senate as the 16th Director...
Researchers at University of Utah Health have shown that first- and second-degree relatives of patients with bicuspid aortic valve (BAV) and thoracic aortic disease are at increased risk for aortic...
At the National Institutes of Health-funded ELEVATE Maternal Health Research Center of Excellence at the University of Utah, clinicians, researchers, and members of the community are working together to prevent...
Oral epidemiologist Brenda Heaton, PhD, MPH, leads research to understand social structures that perpetuate oral health disparities. Dental-medical integration holds the key to equitable care for all.
In March 2022, Taryn Bragg, M.D., a pediatric neurosurgeon at University of Utah Health who practices in Las Vegas, Nevada, noticed something unusual. A significant number of children were presenting...
When you use a wearable device to track your health or fitness, do you control your sensitive information? Or is the technology actually using you? Despite being a Certified Information...
A new study will take a closer look at the viability of flu and coronavirus after aerosol-producing events in hospitals. As the COVID pandemic began to unfold in late 2019...
