A recent study by Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah pain management researchers has found that being seriously overweight is linked to pain sensitivity and other symptoms of the chronic and sometimes debilitating...
The Dynavision D2 is a high-tech tool designed to help patients with a neurological disease or injury regain the visual and motor skills necessary to drive.
(The New York Times) - People with chronic pain often discover that getting the care they need at an affordable price can be challenging. Here are some suggestions that may...
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Feb 03, 2011
(The Seattle Times) - SALT LAKE CITY - Few, if any, patients who check into the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah’s Huntsman Cancer Institute for surgery or chemotherapy will give a moment’s...
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Jan 24, 2011
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A hospital stay accompanied by noise, light and interrupted sleep in unfamiliar surroundings can be a weird experience for anyone but particularly for elderly people...
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Jan 21, 2011
(The New York Times) - A committee voted that the agency approve the first test that can show Alzheimer’s in the brain of a living person.
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Jan 13, 2011
(NPR) - Dr. Jeffrey Botkin, a pediatrician and bioethicist at the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah, speaks to NPR's Michele Norris about the ethics of genetic screening for Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵhood diseases. He says...
The Intermountain West's first neonatal intensive care unit, at the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah Hospital,stands as part of August L. "Larry" Jung's legacy following his death on Tuesday, Jan. 4, 2011.
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - If you knew you were genetically predisposed for skin cancer, would you slather on more sunblock? Would you get your Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵren tested for melanoma?
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Jan 05, 2011
(NPR) - Humidifiers are often the first line of defense for parents trying to help a miserable Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ with a cold or flu. But raising the humidity in a Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ's...
Just seven months after Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah geneticists took part in a landmark study that sequenced for the first time the genome of an entire Utah family, U of U...
Focused effort on key patient safety and quality measures helps catapult the Intermountain West's only academic medical system to the top spot in national ranking.
Michael W. Deininger, M.D., Ph.D., an expert in the treatment and biology of leukemia, has been named chief of the Division of Hematology in the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah School of...
The Intermountain West is renowned for the beauty of its towering mountains and high deserts, but according to new research from an investigator with the Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah Brain Institute...
Following up a pioneering 2007 proof-of-concept study, a Ìð¹ÏÊÓƵ of Utah biochemist and colleagues have developed a promising new anti-HIV drug candidate, PIE12-trimer, that prevents HIV from attacking human cells.
