(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - When Nancy Powell's walking along, the residual effects of a stroke seven years ago following a severe car crash are well hidden.
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Jul 04, 2011
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Watch a life-saving drug flow into the arm of a loved one who has cancer or reach for prescription medication to ease your...
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Jun 24, 2011
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Geneticists using software developed at the University of Utah have identified the mutation that causes a mysterious, previously unnamed affliction that has killed several baby...
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Jun 16, 2011
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Doctors from all four major hospital networks in the state of Utah stood together Thursday in a show of support for better patient...
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Jun 14, 2011
(Deseret News) - Ovarian cancer is the leading cause of death in American women and, if caught early, can push the five-year survival rate up to 90 percent, according to...
Edward B. Clark, M.D., chair of the University of Utah Department of Pediatrics and chief medical officer at Primary Children's Medical Center in Salt Lake City, has received the 2011...
(Reuters) - A new poll shows parents are split over whether their newborns should be screened for fragile X syndrome, the most common type of inherited mental disability.
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May 29, 2011
(Deseret News) - PARK CITY - Mortui vivos docent.
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May 19, 2011
(ABC News) - Evidence of the troubling increase in prescription drug abuse has reached hospital emergency rooms, which report increasing medication-related suicide attempts among women 50 and older.
(TIME) - One in 10 mothers give birth prematurely, a biological mystery that often comes with little warning and a sideshow of dangerous health repercussions. Doctors historically have had little...
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May 15, 2011
(Science Daily) - Researchers working with zebrafish have identified previously undiscovered high-risk genetic features in T-cell acute lymphocytic leukemia.
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May 12, 2011
(U.S. News & World Report) - A new study shows that a retrovirus called XMRV is not present in the blood of people with chronic fatigue syndrome, a finding that...
(The Wall Street Journal) - Shortages of drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder have sent patients and their families on a hunt for pharmacies with drugs in stock.
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May 08, 2011
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Doctors have few ways of identifying which first-time pregnant women will suffer from preterm birth, miscarriage or stillbirth.
As Mother's Day approaches, University of Utah ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Care today celebrated a new partnership with Intermountain ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½care to study the causes and outcomes of first-time pregnancy risks.
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Sarah Reeder found out through her first ultrasound that she had lost not one, but her first two babies, as the twins hadn't...
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May 04, 2011
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Four years ago, cheerleader Tayler Hansen was diagnosed with scoliosis - a curving of her spine. If left uncorrected, it would eventually push...
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May 03, 2011
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Hundreds of rural Utahns have been helped by a federal grant that assists patients and families in finding extended care during serious illnesses, a state...
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Apr 26, 2011
(The Washington Post) - Unprecedented surge in drug shortages plagues hospitals, patients across the United States.
Officials at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah today announced a gift of $41 million from Utah philanthropists Jon and Karen Huntsman.
A new study led by researchers from the University of Utah, Brigham Young University (BYU), and Intermountain ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½care suggests that more than 80 percent of pre-term births can be spotted...