History holds a lesson for Americans still reeling from the 2016 election. The characteristics of true leadership—hard work, resilience and virtue among them—seemed to disappear over the past year
We've still got a long way to go in supporting women in science and medicine. Nationwide, only 20 percent of assistant professors in STEM and medical colleges are women. And...
Scanning this glossy photo, it doesn’t look like we have a gender problem: A dozen young female scientists are striving and thriving, tackling medical problems from how burns transform fat...
Under University of Utah Health Care’s Value-Driven Outcomes initiative, more than 6,000 staff and faculty have logged on or signed up for face-to-face training seminars. Collectively they’ve developed more than...
When Joan Sheetz, M.D., and Anna C. Beck, M.D., met during their work at Salt Lake City’s Fourth Street Clinic for the homeless, they were able to recognize a shared...
"The problem with medical school is the Krebs Cycle." This is a common refrain from physicians. More precisely, the problem is rote memorization of the Krebs cycle, other metabolic pathways...
Globally, trauma kills more people every year than AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. COMBINED. Let me say that again - every year, more than 5 million people worldwide die of traumatic...
A randomized trial of people with stable moderate forms of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) concluded that receiving supplemental oxygen therapy made no difference in quality of life, lung function...
SALT LAKE CITY—Officials at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah today announced the creation of a new center to be housed in the soon-to-be-completed expansion of HCI’s...
Wyatt Rory Hume became Dean of the School of Dentistry May 15, 2016. On August 23, 2016 he presented to the Multidisciplinary Global Health Research Seminar Series.
Fogarty Fellow Lilliam Pinzón studied cavity treatments in Mexican children with HIV and held a symposium to increase sensitivity toward people infected with the virus.
ARUP Laboratories Medical Director Robert Schlaberg, MD, Dr Med, MPH, will be the Principal Investigator for a project to help decrease the high mortality rate of children with infectious diseases...
The lactoferrin gene arose in early mammals approximately 160 million years ago, and can still be found in the genomes of humans and other primates. New research shows that lactoferrin...
We've made great progress treating people who are infected with HIV, but if they get cancer they're less likely to get the care they need, a recent study found. Dr...
People with rotator cuff tears often experience other tendon or nerve problems as well, but it has been unclear whether those associated ailments are influenced by genetics or environment. New...
Salim Hasham spoke to the Global Health Community on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. Salim Hasham has successfully led a range of Health care Enterprises and Projects, spanning five continents and...
Last week, a group representing Aga Khan University and Hospital in Pakistan visited ARUP Laboratories as part of their two-day visit at the University of Utah. Aga Khan has a...
Sam Brown was interviewed on Utah Public Radio's Wednesday’s Access Utah about his new book, Through the Valley of Shadows: Living Wills, Intensive Care, and Making Medicine Human.
In patients with sepsis, the infecting microbes are usually viewed as generic triggers of inflammation while the patients themselves are considered the primary variables that affect disease progression and severity...
