Researchers from the Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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...
You don't need a vocabulary lesson when you don't feel well. Always ask if you don't understand something your health care provider says, but just in case, here are the...
For seven years running, Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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 Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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 Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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 Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ of Utah has been selected as a Howard Hughes Medical...
Today, the Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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...
Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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 Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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...
Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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 Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ 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, Ïã½¶ÊÓÆµ of Utah School of Medicine researchers report. When given...
Squirting a simple saline solution into the nose twice a day could alleviate chronic nosebleeds just as effectively as spraying with any one of three different medications, reports a study...