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Utah scientists are exploring how aging is influenced by the cumulative effects of the lifelong effects of environment, diet, and lifestyle on the body.
A new collaborative effort aims to bring researchers and practitioners together to explore the connection between nature and human health.
Even though COVID-19 vaccines are widely available in the U.S., it is still difficult for some people to get vaccinated. U of U Health scientists examined strategies to minimize inequity in COVID-19 vaccine access.
University of Utah Health scientist Janet Iwasa, PhD, creates animations that show how viruses and proteins in our cells look, move and interact.
Recognition, Research
Highlighting investigators and their pioneering research programs, the Vitae program seeds new collaborations and development strategies by humanizing research through story.
University of Utah Health physical medicine and rehabilitation assistant professor Jacob George, PhD, director of the Utah NeuroRobotics Lab who is also helping develop the “LUKE Arm” motorized prosthetic arm, was named ...
Encouraging breastfeeding could reduce lifelong risk of obesity, diabetes in Navajo children.
Recognition, Health Care
In 1996, U of U Health first started its lung transplant program, providing life-saving transplants for patients throughout the Mountain West. Now, 25 years later, the program remains the only one of its kind in the enti...
Education, Recognition
The U of U SACNAS organization was designated as “Chapter of the Year” for training and supporting the next generation of diverse STEM talent.
The Data Coordinating Center (DCC) at University of Utah Health received $12 million to study solutions to sepsis-induced multiple organ dysfunction syndrome (MODS) in critically ill children.
The National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has awarded a $10-million grant to the Four Corners Youth Consortium, a group of academic medical centers studying concussions in school-aged children.
Ongoing debate about the origin of the pandemic continues. Did SARS CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, originate in wild animals that then infected humans? Or did it leak from a lab? U of U Health evolutionary virolo...
Three U of U Health studies find new genetic links to suicidal behavior.
The rehabilitation of patients with traumatic brain injuries takes therapy, education, and hope.
Discovery provides researchers with a more complete picture of what is going wrong in ALS and what might be done to mitigate it.
In response to a global threat, COVID-19, University of Utah mounted a research response that is making a lasting impact on the virus and its numerous effects.
University of Utah Health scientists and collaborators with the Adolescent Brain Cognitive Development (ABCD) Consortium have developed a rich resource for studying how the brain changes and matures during adolescence. T...
Con las vacunas COVID-19 ahora disponibles a personas de 12 años de edad o måas en Utah, 2021 es un año lleno de optimismo porque cuanto antes recibamos la vacuna más pronto nuestras vidas pueden volver a la normalidad.
For Christopher Duncan, his amputee patients’ emotional healing is as important as the physical and functional.
A new study led by researchers at University of Utah Health tracing the development of human sperm stem cells to mature sperm cells has yielded the most comprehensive view of this process to date.
Featured, Research
The pandemic has caused unparalleled disruptions to organizations all over the world. For some, it has been a destabilizing and crippling force; for others, it has ignited a vision and accelerated high-function performan...
Health Care, Featured
U of U Health reflects on 12 months of adversity and accomplishments in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. Our interactive timeline charts one pivotal event at a time through photos, videos, data visualizations, an...
University of Utah Health is one of six sites in the U.S. for the vaccine effectiveness study which will help determine how well COVID-19 vaccines work in the “real-world” and outside of the controlled clinical trial set...
Inspiration can come from many places—and that’s certainly true for U of U Health scientists following nature’s lead as they create new ways to treat and prevent disease.
Each year, more than 2.8 million antibiotic-resistant infections occur in the United States. A new study suggests cost-effective way to prevent them.
Better Health for Populations demonstrates how creating interventions and understanding behavior are making a differnece for tens of thousands to millions. These stories are part of Pioneering the Future, a campaign cele...
A new study suggests that refined autism testing, reminding pediatricians to evaluate toddlers for this disorder, and better medical follow-up after at-risk screening results could lead to earlier detection and treatment...
Health Care
Although Alzheimer's disease is a devastating diagnosis that is better delivered earlier rather than later, new research suggests poor patients living in rural areas may not have access to the specialists who could spot ...
University of Utah Health researchers are participating in an effort to produce the world’s largest DNA mapping effort of children and their families.
A Moran Eye Center ophthalmologist is investigating how lipids known as VLC-PUFAs could be used to prevent eye disease thanks to a new way to synthesize them for research.
A University of Utah Health pediatric cardiologist is at the forefront of efforts to understand how multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), a severe complication of COVID-19, is affecting children long-term—and find t...
