Jack H. Petajan, M.D., Ph.D., professor of neurology and School of Medicine faculty member for 36 years, died Wednesday, June 22, after a courageous battle against biliary cancer and its...
A researcher from the University of Utah Pharmacotherapy Outcomes Research Center presented the findings of the first major study on appropriate Medicare reimbursements for chemotherapy services to cancer patients on...
For the 25 percent of American women who suffer excessive menstrual bleeding and severe abdominal pain because of uterine fibroids, a non-surgical procedure now offered at University of Utah Hospitals...
The University of Utah Hospital Stroke Center has been named a Primary Stroke Center by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½care Organizations (JCAHO).
For the second year in a row, the University of Utah Genetic Science Learning Center Web site has been named one of the 50 best science and technology Web sites...
A genetic variation seen worldwide in which people either taste or do not taste a bitter, synthetic compound called PTC has been preserved by natural selection, University of Utah and...
The University of Utah School of Medicine's Department of Family and Preventive Medicine is the nation's No. 3 family medicine department in grants from National Institutes of ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ (NIH).
Residents of South Jordan can now access the vast medical services available at the University of Utah from their own neighborhood at the newly opened South Jordan ÐÇ¿Õ´«Ã½ Center.
Skin color and other physical traits often used to define race are based on a small number of genes and sometimes, but not always, reveal information about an individual's genetic...
A human gene named ATR normally protects people by preventing the replication of cells damaged by radiation or toxic chemicals. Now, Utah and New York researchers have discovered how a...
A recent study by University of Utah researchers shows that women who enlist the help of their mothers or daughters exercised more regularly and with better results.
University of Utah medical physicist Dennis D. Leavitt, Ph.D., who is nationally recognized for his contributions to cancer research, education, and clinical care through radiation oncology, will receive award.
On June 6 University of Utah will begin work on a 100,000-square-foot, three-level facility will incorporate the eight major orthopedic subspecialties.
A couple of old standbys—defibrillators and pacemakers—are reducing the risk of death by up to 40 percent in people whose hearts don't pump enough blood.