News: pediatrics

A new finding could help refine and improve screening strategies for Type 1 diabetes among children who genetically at-risk for the disease.

Former and current patients and their families joined University of Utah Health, Intermountain Healthcare, local leaders, and health representatives to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Primary Children's Hospital. Throughout a...

Every student at the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine now carries a handheld, point-of-care ultrasound device. This is a genuine breakthrough for facilitating medical diagnosis and therapy. The devices...

Encouraging breastfeeding could reduce lifelong risk of obesity, diabetes in Navajo children.

A new study suggests that refined autism testing, reminding pediatricians to evaluate toddlers for this disorder, and better medical follow-up after at-risk screening results could lead to earlier detection and...

University of Utah Health researchers are participating in an effort to produce the world’s largest DNA mapping effort of children and their families.

A University of Utah Health pediatric cardiologist is at the forefront of efforts to understand how multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a severe complication of COVID-19, is affecting children long-term—and find...

The GRUCH Fellowship program at University of Utah Health was designed to train pediatricians to become global health leaders.

When a doctor diagnoses a child with pneumonia, all too often the default is to prescribe antibiotics. Considering that antibiotics can cause serious side effects and overuse causes microbes to...