As we celebrate nine years among the nation’s Top 10 academic medical centers for quality and safety, Chief Medical Quality Officer Bob Pendleton, MD, reflects on the cultural evolution that is driving our deep commitment to improved patient care. ... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Utah Health will be celebrating the Newborn Intensive Care Unit's (NBICU) 50th anniversary in September. Learn about August Jung, MD's, struggles to establish the NICU 50 years ago, the first unit of it's kind in the Mountain West.... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Inducing labor in healthy women at 39 weeks into their pregnancy reduces the need for cesarean section and is at least as safe for mother and baby as waiting for spontaneous labor. Choosing to induce could also reduce the risk that mothers will develop preeclampsia and that newborns will need respiratory support after delivery, according to a study publishing online in the New England Journal of Medicine.... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Howard Sharp is one of six faculty members to be awarded the inaugural Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chair.... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
The University of Utah and the Huntsman Family Foundation have announced the creation of twelve presidential faculty chairs in health sciences. The Jon M. Huntsman Presidential Chairs provide sweeping support to academic researchers, educators, and clinicians spanning a wide array of fields. ... Read More
Psychiatry,Obstetrics and Gynecology,Population Health Sciences,Internal Medicine,Biomedical Informatics
Robert M. Silver, MD, has been appointed Chair of the Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology. Silver has been serving as the interim chair since the departure of C. Matthew Peterson, MD in 2016.... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Association between maternal sleep practices and late stillbirth not justified, according to U of U Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine; pregnant women can rest easy that sleeping on their backs does not lead to an increased risk of stillbirth.... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
David Turok MD MPH, Associate Professor and Family Planning Division Director in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology has been awarded a five-year Mid-Career Investigator Award in Patient-Oriented Research (K24) from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). ... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
Early placement of a hormonal IUD is a safe, long-term birth control method that does not negatively affect women who want to breastfeed their baby.... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology,Family and Preventive Medicine
The American Heart Association (AHA) awarded investigators at University of Utah Health $3.7 million to conduct collaborative research to prevent and treat congenital heart disease. U of U Health is one of four groups across the country to join the AHA’s Strategically Focused Research Network (SFRN) for children.... Read More
Neurobiology and Anatomy,Population Health Sciences,Human Genetics,Obstetrics and GynecologyTwo screening tests often used to try to predict which pregnant women are likely to deliver prematurely aren’t effective in low-risk women, according to a national collaborative study of more than 10,000 women, led by clinician-researchers at University of Utah Health Sciences and Intermountain Healthcare. ... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
An innovative comprehensive mentoring program, the University of Utah Vice President’s Clinical and Translational Research Scholars Program (VPCAT), is fostering successful junior faculty. 92 percent of participants received extramural funding during the two years they were in the program. Moreover, 95 percent have since remained in academic medicine, a stark contrast to the national retention rate of 50 percent. A case study on VPCAT was published in Academic Medicine, on December 8, 2015.... Read More
Obstetrics and GynecologyA high proportion of reproductive-age women may be experiencing pelvic pain that goes untreated, according to a study by researchers from the National Institutes of Health and the University of Utah School of Medicine, Salt Lake City.... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Utah scientists have uncovered patterns of DNA anomalies that predict a woman’s outcome significantly better than tumor stage. In addition, these patterns are the first known indicator of how well a woman will respond to platinum therapy. Published in the journal PLOS ONE, the patterns were discovered by using a new mathematical technique in the analysis of DNA profiles from the Cancer Genome Atlas, a national database containing data from hundreds of ovarian cancer patients. ... Read More
Human Genetics,Obstetrics and Gynecology
University of Utah Health Care (UHCC), along with thousands of hospitals across the United States is celebrating Hospital Week. ... Read More
Neurology,Psychiatry,Human Genetics,Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,Biomedical Informatics,Pediatrics,Pathology,Anesthesiology,Dermatology,Orthopaedics,Radiation Oncology,Surgery,Radiology,Neurosurgery,Physiology,Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,Oncological Sciences,Obstetrics and Gynecology,Family and Preventive Medicine,Biochemistry,Internal Medicine
Study of long-term outcomes for sacrocolpopexy reveals that many women develop recurrence or urinary incontinence ... Read More
Obstetrics and GynecologyUtah's only academic medical center uses data from more than 40,000 patient surveys to rate its physicians on nine measures using a five-star system. ... Read More
Pathology,Oncological Sciences,Biochemistry,Psychiatry,Family and Preventive Medicine,Radiation Oncology,Orthopaedics,Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences,Neurosurgery,Radiology,Physiology,Biomedical Informatics,Surgery,Anesthesiology,Pediatrics,Human Genetics,Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation,Dermatology,Obstetrics and Gynecology,Neurology,Internal MedicineThe most common causes of stillbirth range from preterm labor and infection to blood pressure disorders and genetic or structural abnormalities of the fetus, a new study has shown.... Read More
Obstetrics and GynecologyUniversity of Utah Health Care opened its first Outpatient Lactation Clinic this week for new moms ... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology,Family and Preventive MedicineUniversity of Utah Health Care and Regence team up to present a free, week-long health event... Read More
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