(NPR) - It's a new kind of brinksmanship for U.S. doctors: caring for patients with life-threatening diseases when the supply of critical drugs threatens to disappear.
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Feb 11, 2012
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - A once vibrant 14-year-old is often too sick to get out of bed. Her health has been off and on like that for...
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Feb 04, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Cancer doctors who want to give patients new "smart" drugs in their offices - a practice now forbidden in Utah - will soon take their...
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Jan 31, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - BRIGHTON - Tucker, the 4-month-old black Labrador Retriever, locked his legs and did his best to get off of his leash as Lauren Edwards pulled...
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Jan 21, 2012
(KSL) - SOUTH JORDAN - The new 208,000-square-foot South Jordan ǿմý Center officially opened its doors Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The center, which is University of Utah ǿմý Care's...
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Jan 20, 2012
(U.S. Pharmacist) - The United States is currently experiencing the most severe shortages of certain drugs in its history. Maybe this is not “news” in the sense that an inability...
Professor of biochemistry Dana Carroll, Ph.D., has been chosen for the 2012 Novitski Prize, an award from the Genetics Society of America (GSA) that recognizes "extraordinary creativity and intellectual ingenuity...
Researchers from the University of Utah have identified a process by which the most common types of urinary tract infection-causing bacteria are able to trigger bladder cell shedding and disable...
The Wilderness Medical Society is partnering with the University of Utah, University of Colorado, International Society of Mountain Medicine (ISMM), International Commission for Alpine Rescue (ICAR), and Union Internationale des...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The University of Utah's medical school is among more than 100 nationwide uniting to improve health care for America's veterans under...
Distraction is a proven pain reliever, and a new study reported in The Journal of Pain concludes that listening to music can be effective for reducing pain
(Huffington Post) - Obese people who had weight-loss surgery were less likely to later suffer a heart attack or stroke, or to die from one, compared to people who did...
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Jan 04, 2012
(Reuters) - Obese people who had weight-loss surgery were less likely to later suffer a heart attack or stroke, or to die from one, compared to people who did not...
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Jan 04, 2012
(The New York Times) - Can the right sonata soothe the pain of a medical operation?
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Jan 02, 2012
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - That's because she's "a doer," one full of insights and a drive for excellence, according to former colleagues in Manhattan, where Lee was vice dean...
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Jan 01, 2012
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - With multiple hospitals in the Salt Lake Valley, it is sometimes difficult to know where to go for care.
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Dec 18, 2011
(Deseret News) - SANDY - Here's an unforgettable Christmas scene from the past: a younger Brady Cook, agitated because his current obsession, a battery-powered toy drill that was under the...
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Dec 16, 2011
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Hobbled by doctors who seemed unable to diagnose the rare intestinal disorder that wracked her 14-year-old son's body with constant pain, Vicki Whiting never thought...
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Dec 15, 2011
(Deseret News) - University of Utah ǿմý Care's AirMed and Mountain View Hospital celebrate full-time service in southern Utah County with a new Payson base on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.
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Dec 14, 2011
(TIME) - When reality TV star Michelle Duggar announced last week that she’d learned at 19½ weeks that her baby-to-be no longer had a heartbeat, the very personal topic of...
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Dec 13, 2011
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - Kalynn Olsen is crying tears of joy these days. She finally got her kidney transplant, but not exactly how she was expecting it.
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - For the first time, surgeons at the University of Utah's Clinical Neurosciences Center have used a novel new tool that cuts then cauterizes...