Research, Recognition
Highlighting investigators and their pioneering research programs, the Vitae program seeds new collaborations and development strategies by humanizing research through story.
Recognition
The Immunology, Inflammation and Infectious Disease Initiative (3i) at the University of Utah Health has awarded seed grants to eight collaborative research projects.
Health Care
Policy changes that try to ‘fix’ child abuse but fail to address the underlying cause of abuse does not solve the problem.
Two employees take on a rowing challenge to help fundraise for ALS, getting insight into the long days the ROW4ALS team will be experiencing.
Research
Open artificial pancreas (OpenAPS) technology consists of a hacked insulin pump, continuous glucose monitor (CGM), and a microcomputer combination that work together to minimize the dangerous blood glucose variability ca...
Health Care, Health Care Transformation
A new clinic providing HIV prevention pills to the uninsured may be a game-changer in Utah’s fight to end the AIDS epidemic.
Leung received $806,000 from the Gates Foundation to develop and test a smartphone app to help clinicians determine the cause of diarrhea in young children.
Researchers at University of Utah Health wanted to know if adversity during childhood rewired the brain, increasing vulnerability to mood disorders later in life.
Researchers found a strong disparity in leukodystrophy diagnoses, despite the fact that the genetic mutations responsible for the disease were similar for different racial groups.
A prominent cancer researcher failed to report conflicts of interest, receiving millions of dollars of payments from drug and health care companies, recently reported by The New York Times and ProPublica. Soon after, the...
The countdown is on for Alan Alderman and the rest of the ROW4ALS team, as they prepare to depart for San Sebastian in La Gomera, Canary Islands, Spain in just under three weeks. Dr. Mark Bromberg, chief of the Diagnosti...
Mobile Clinic Brings Health and Diabetes Coaching to Neighborhoods
A team of scientists at University of Utah Health work to develop glaucoma therapies that treat pressure in the front of the eye and prevent damage in the back of the eye.
Magnesium sulfate does not offer protection against the risk of autism in premature infants, a retrospective study finds.
SCM Lifescience Co., Ltd. and the University of Utah announced that they have entered into a collaborative research agreement to generate cell sheets and complete a functional evaluation of the allogenic stem cells using...
On paper, Alan is almost a perfect picture of health. But despite his easy-going nature and the platitudes he sprinkles throughout conversation, Alan is a warrior fighting against the ALS that is gradually stealing his n...
The Vitae Vignettes video series celebrates the people and stories that drive our research. Watch the video to see what inspires biochemist Claudio Villanueva and his search for novel solutions to obesity and diabetes.
With a goal of leveraging the Utah Translational Hypertension Symposium to make an impact, the organizers created a unique, intimate setting where researchers and in-the-trenches clinicians could problem solve with leade...
What does it take to live for two months on a row boat? Read about the ROW4ALS team and Alan Alderman's, ALS patient, specially constructed boat that will take them the distance.
Researchers at University of Utah Health joined colleagues at the Ensign College of Public Health to evaluate the quality and safety of surgical care provided at the Volta River Authority Hospital (VRAH) in Akosombo, Gha...
The Driving Out Diabetes, a Larry H. Miller Family Wellness Initiative, has awarded grants to eight projects designed to activate novel research projects in the areas of diabetes, obesity and metabolism and to train the ...
The Life Skills Clinic Comprehensive Behavioral Intervention for Tics and Life Function program helps children and adults with Tourette Syndrome.
A small team of doctors at the University of Utah Health Family Medicine Residency Program developed a blog to sharpen the communication skills of their residents.
This winter, Alan Alderman will battle the elements in an extreme rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean known as the Talisker Whisky Challenge. Diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alan brings something un...
Recognition, Research
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 k...
While atrial fibrillation is more common in older adults, it is highly unusual in a young person. At only 22 years old, Martha Aston was an anomaly.
The Second Annual University of Utah Translational Hypertension Symposium assembles national experts in hypertension treatment and research.
As the new president of the International Association of Dental Research, D’Souza will be leading an organization of more than 11,000 members from about a 100 countries worldwide.
Researchers use fitness trackers to study physical activity and sedentary behaviors in preschool-aged children.
Scientists identified a gene that controls how the liver communicates with the pancreas, which offers a new approach to combat diabetes.
Have you ever given a blood sample for a research study and a few months later wondered, “what happened to that study?” A National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine panel has taken on the controversial issue...
The Vitae Vignettes video series celebrates the people and stories that drive our research. Watch the video to see the story behind June Round’s quest to understand how our microbiome shapes our health.
Education
University of Utah Health established the four-year Certificate in Personalized Health Care in 2012 to help the next generation of doctors develop the skills needed to practice medicine in the era of genomics.
The Metabolomics Core at U of U Health empowers researchers at the U and beyond to sort through the stream of metabolites with the aim of understanding disease and developing new treatments.
Researchers at University of Utah Health are using zebrafish to determine the role of one particular gene in the onset and progression of osteoarthritis.
Physical Therapy students and faculty at U of U Health spoke with Hispanic immigrants to identify their concerns about lower back care to craft treatments that are culturally sensitive and effective. The findings from t...
Clinicians at University of Utah Health have completed a study demonstrating how guideline-quality office blood pressure measurements and home blood pressure monitoring can be effectively implemented into the workflow of...
Researchers at University of Utah address fundamental questions by studying short sleepers, folks who report regularly getting less than six hours of sleep every night yet do not report any negative effects.
Researchers at the University of Utah Health identified an important molecular mechanism that may influence the progression of Sjögren’s syndrome in mice.
A new study by researchers at University of Utah Health spoke with autistic adolescents to learn first-hand their own views on entering adulthood. The results are published in the premiere issue of the journal Autism in ...
Health Care, Research
The Neuroscience Initiative was launched by the University of Utah Health to take steps towards alleviating the devastating effects of brain disorders.
A team of researchers at University of Utah Health have developed EmpowerStars!, a mobile video game to help pediatric cancer patients as they progress through and complete cancer therapy.
Scientists at University of Utah Health joined an international team of researchers on a project that identified a gene mutation that may be responsible for some sporadic and familial cases of Amyotrophic lateral scleros...
Research, Health Care
Low back pain is the No. 1. cause of disability worldwide, but overuse of inappropriate tests and treatments such as imaging, opioids and surgery means patients are not receiving the right care, and resources are wasted.
Education, Health Care, Research
The GRUCH Fellowship program at University of Utah Health was designed to train pediatricians to become global health leaders.
The Vitae Vignettes video series celebrates the people and stories that drive our research. Watch the video to see what inspires cancer researcher Trudy Oliver and her search for new treatments for lung cancer.
Research from University of Utah Health shows that an enzyme called ADARs prevents cells from mounting an immune response against itself. Recently published in Genes & Development, their investigation demonstrates one wa...
For many employers, the second biggest line item in their budgets is to pay for medical benefits for their employees. In fact, employers pay for the health care of more than half of all Americans. The value they get in r...
Health Care, Recognition
Former Olympian Barbara Jones wants to make sure you know one thing about her career as a competitive cross-country skier: she was never in it alone. The sport may seem like a solitary one, with individuals tackling cour...
Personalized medicine promises to deliver the right treatment to the right patient at the right price.
Scientists at University of Utah Health have developed a test that can quickly identify populations that had been recently infected with cholera. The new test can be easily deployed in the field as a first step in decidi...
Speedskating’s latest phenom is not what you would expect. At just 18 years old, standing 5 feet 6 inches tall, Maame Biney is the first African American woman to represent the United States in speedskating at a Winter O...
Managing care for patients with chronic pain is complicated as practitioners navigate the need to alleviate pain while keeping powerful medications off the streets. Nicholas Cox and colleagues at University of Utah Healt...
Recognition, Health Care
For Alex Wubbels being an Olympian wasn’t a lifelong dream – but a wish. “My mom always had a thing for making wishes with the wishbone,” she said. “Every wish I ever made was to make the US ski team and to go to the Oly...
John A. Moran Eye Center physician investigator Mary Elizabeth Hartnett's National Institutes of Health-funded lab has discovered crucial information about the role of EPO in the eye.
Though he’s a native Utahn, Christopher Gee, MD was in medical school in Pennsylvania, -- thousands of miles away from all the excitement -- when the Olympics came to Salt Lake City in 2002. He remembers watching in awe ...
Education, Health Care
A video focuses on Mikaela Shiffrin as she blasts out of the starting gate in Courchevel, France, and threads her way to another win on this year’s FIS World Cup circuit. The 22-year-old ski-racing phenomenon is all smil...
Research by scientists at University of Utah Health shows how experiments in the common fruit fly can yield insights into rare human diseases with relative ease at a rapid pace.
Scientists at University of Utah Health developed a new search engine to overcome obstacles for searching genome databases that may accelerate the application of personalized medicine.
Researchers at University of Utah Health conducted the first review to evaluate post-surgery complication rates associated with overlapping surgery.
