Simply reducing health care costs in the United States isn't enough, says health care consultant James Orlikoff. The country must reverse its rate of health care cost growth - or...
Newly released research findings from University of Utah neuroscientists assert that there is no evidence within brain imaging that indicates some people are right-brained or left-brained.
President Obama's health care reform simply won't work, said Arnold Relman, M.D. , former editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine and professor emeritus of medicine and social medicine...
Prenatal care is governed by medical dogma. Mothers first check in with their doctors around eight weeks’ gestation, setting in motion a regimented schedule of clinic visits and tests -...
Imagine a health care system with zero falls, no medication errors and not a single death from a hospital-acquired infection. Upholding health care's "do no harm" oath isn't easy in...
Drawing pictures. As simplistic and unscientific as it sounds, pictures have been one of the most powerful tools scientists have used to help them understand and explain the unknown. Today...
This month, Drakos received a $486,000 grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation to further advance his work and move closer to developing a framework for drugs that could change...
Imagine what college tuition would look like if higher education charged on a fee-for-service model, suggested Harvard Business School luminary Clayton Christensen. Education would be broken down into specific services...
Why Utah? That's an all-too-familiar question for those of us who have chosen to live and work in the Beehive State. So we decided to ask some of our rock...
It's a big week for two ophthalmologists at the University of Utah's Moran Eye Center: Dr. Geoff Tabin and Dr. Alan Crandall are celebrating the release of Second Suns, a...
It's official! On June 14, 2013, Gov. Gary Herbert signed Senate Bill 42 into law, which expands the University of Utah's School of Medicine class size from 82 students to...
This year's 20 interns represent 9 Native American tribes from 14 colleges and universities and come with a varying pedigree of 13 undergraduate study majors.
Volunteers were recognized for their contributions at a recent luncheon, where five student volunteers were awarded scholarships and several longtime volunteers where honored.
It became known as the "baby bong project." Stanford University students looking for cost-effective ways to build inhalers for impoverished children in Latin America stumbled upon an unorthodox method during...
Talk about TMI. One trillion devices are moving at breakneck speed, generating 2.5 quintillion bytes of data per day. In the world of medicine, information is doubling every five years...
Clearly, the drug development process is under significant stress. Vicki Seyfert-Margolis, Ph.D. former Senior Advisor for Science Innovation and Policy at the U.S Food and Drug Administration, recently visited the...
It wasn't Clayton Christensen's (author of The Innovator's Dilemma), first visit to University of Utah Health Sciences, nor will it be the last, but it was certainly a memorable one...
If necessity is indeed the mother of invention, then our current drug development model is ripe for change. "If we want health care and medical products to be accessible, they...
