Featured, Giving, Health Care
The Genomics Summer Research for Minorities (GSRM) internship provides a ten-week summer research program for undergraduate students interested in genomics research, personalized medicine and biosciences.
Health Care, Giving, Featured
A student-start up program that aims to provide accessible health care to all, from across the nation and around the globe, one wheelchair at a time.
Health Care
No matter your age or your level of hearing loss, you can get help. University of Utah Health’s Speech-Language-Hearing Clinic in Research Park offers access to audiologists for adults and children suffering from hearing...
Research, Featured
An initiative at University of Utah Health aims to improve the lives of people with diabetes, which affects nearly 10 percent of America’s population.
Research
Researchers explore familial relationships using unique Utah resources to develop high-risk profiles with the hope of identifying those at greater risk for atrial fibrillation.
A new study examined the degree to which extended family can indicate risk for Alzheimer’s disease.
Researchers examine the long-term psychological impact of food restrictions on normal eating patterns in patients.
Health Care, Featured, Education
Megan Fix, MD, explained to current University of Utah medical residents how to recognize symptoms of burnout displayed by their peers and themselves, as well as how to access resources available to them.
Featured
A new study reveals the Utah opioid epidemic death toll includes an alarming number of new moms.
University of Utah Health researchers found that the median age at which 4-year-old children are first evaluated did not significantly decrease between 2010 to 2014. Increased efforts for early screening are needed.
Doctors make medical decisions in the spotlight.
The award recognizes an individual’s outstanding contribution to nursing or healthcare.
Recognition, Featured, Research
Enthusiastic university students from across the state and beyond spent the evening engaging with judges, volunteers, and fellow competitors at the Bench to Bedside competition.
A team of researchers published the results of a phase 1 clinical trial for the drug Givosiran, which targets the liver cells ultimately responsible for acute hepatic porphyrias.
Researchers uncover a molecular key that gives an edge to the Epstein Barr virus.
New research is showing that bacteriophages have the potential to shape the communities that live within the gut and ultimately your health—for better or worse.
Expert recommendations reassure families and insurance companies that new treatments for rare childhood diseases have a greater chance of success.
Education
University of Utah faculty, staff, and neuroscience graduate students volunteered during Brain Awareness Week to bring hands-on learning to elementary and high school students throughout the Salt Lake valley.
On this International Women’s Day, U of U Health cardiologist Rashmee Shah, MD, explains why gender balance isn’t a women’s issue, it is something everyone should be thinking about.
Health Care, Featured
In the face of escalating teen suicides, Utah launched an app. No one knew just how much change it would bring.
Featured, Research
To help promote the highest standards of care, and improve the overall rates of survival and recovery following TBI, experts issued the 3rd edition of the Brain Trauma Foundation Guidelines for the Management of Pediatri...
The human immune system is notorious for overreacting to common infections. University of Utah Health researchers have shown how one component of the immune system might have evolved to limit this collateral damage.
Researchers in the Department of Dermatology at University of Utah decreased their prescription of opioids by 23 percent following skin cancer surgeries compared to almost a decade ago.
Researchers at University of Utah Health studied brain biopsies of multiple sclerosis patients and identified 29 microbes from 11 different phyla within the tissue. This approach offers a new way to study this disease.
Lower Blood Pressure Could Reduce Risk for Dementia
