The Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah College of Pharmacy’s Anticonvulsant Drug Development (ADD) Program has been awarded a five-year $19.5 million contract renewal with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to test...
On Dec. 1-2, national experts in genetics, medicine, law, big data and other will fields gather for Frontiers in Precision Medicine II: Cancer, Big Data and the Public, a unique...
Published in October in Cell as part of a study led by scientists at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah School of Medicine, the structure reveals how specific mistakes in PKD2 triggers...
For years, scientists have known that someone who is thin could still end up with diabetes. Yet an obese person may be surprisingly healthy. Now, new research led by scientists...
For 2017, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Health Plans (UUHP) will expand its presence in the Utah market by continuing to offer Individual Plan products alongside SelectHealth and Molina.
In the past decade, ophthalmologists have been prescribing nutritional supplements to be taken daily to prevent or slow vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Now, using nutritional supplements for...
The Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Health Care Thrombosis Service has been named an Anticoagulation Center of Excellence after passing the Anticoagulation Forum’s assessment program.
In October, the Utah Hospital Association honored Van Vranken with the 2016 Distinguished Hospital Executive Award, which recognizes individuals who’ve made significant contributions to health care in our state.
Researchers from the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah studying Drosophila fruit flies have found that in flies, providing a common dietary supplement prevents death caused by Pngl deficiency, the fly analog of...
"Coffee" was the most tweeted food in the continental U.S. from mid-2014 to mid-2015 followed by "beer" then "pizza". Besides hinting at which foods are popular, VPCAT scholar Quynh Nguyen...
A team of physicians and laboratory scientists has taken a key step toward a cure for sickle cell disease, using CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing to fix the mutated gene responsible for...
For seven years running, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Health Care (UUHC) has ranked among the nation’s top 10 academic medical centers in quality, safety and accountability. This year, the U has...
Researchers at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah School of Medicine and ARUP Laboratories in Salt Lake City unravel the mystery behind a rare Zika-related death in an adult, and unconventional transmission...
Tuesday in Töv Province, Mongolia, physicians from the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Center for Global Surgery will use a medical device invented on campus to perform surgery in front of a...
Jody Rosenblatt, Ph.D., a cell biologist at Huntsman Cancer Institute and an associate professor of oncological sciences at the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical...
Today, the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah announced a $3.1 million award from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to investigate how a person’s genetic makeup and a range of environmental factors...
Most people could benefit from a few extra hours of sleep every night. But some people habitually sleep much less than the recommended amount, yet report feeling no ill effects...
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah is taking part in a nationwide, landmark study designed to address questions about how typical teen experiences – such as social media, lack of sleep and head...
Bucking national trends, a Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Health Care program is making a difference in healthcare quality and cost, reports a study published in the Journal of the American Medical...
Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah researchers have found that the structure of an insulin molecule produced by predatory cone snails may be an improvement over current fast-acting therapeutic insulin. The finding suggests...
On September 1st, the Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah Health Care Orthopaedic Center became the first provider in the state and one of only a handful of academic medical centers in the...
A factor found in umbilical cord blood could become the basis for developing a new therapy to fight harmful inflammation, Ï㽶ÊÓƵ of Utah School of Medicine researchers report. When given...
