Traci Baird, President and CEO of EngenderHealth spoke on “Women’s Leadership in Global Health and the Role of International NGOs in Advancing Gender Equality.” She is the first speaker in...
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.
Intermountain Precision Genomics, a program within Intermountain Healthcare, has awarded more than $400,000 in total to researchers at Stanford University, Huntsman Cancer Institute, the University of Utah School of Medicine...
Autoimmune diseases, including type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, arise when the body’s immune cells attack itself. Current treatments eliminate these misfunctioning immune cells, but also destroy normal, protective immune...
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...
Faculty at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) cultivate the scientists who will carry our lifesaving work into the future. It's part of our mission. We offer trainee programs for researchers, public...
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...
The human immune system is notorious for overreacting to common infections or going to war with harmless substances like dust or pollen. Its efforts to mount these defenses often exact...
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.
When you fall and scrape your knee, the injured tissue forms a red bump or lesion. Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an unpredictable autoimmune disease, characterized by lesions in the brain...
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...
By now I am sure you know that one of our residents in family medicine, Dr. Sarah Hawley, was murdered on Sunday, January 27th in a case of intimate partner...
With Super Bowl LIII on the horizon, Americans are gearing up to celebrate the modern-day clash of the titans. For many, football has become a taboo topic, as former fans...
University of Utah Health is proud to present One in a Million, an original short documentary co-directed by two acclaimed independent filmmakers, Jeremiah Zagar and Ross Kauffman.
Novel educational resources, research reproducibility, and diverse community partnerships are only a few highlights from 2018 for the Eccles Health Sciences Library.
