It's difficult to know how to help when you learn that a friend or co-worker has cancer. Donna Branson, director of patient and public education at Huntsman Cancer Institute at...
(Fox 13) - SALT LAKE CITY - Chemicals are mixed into pools to kill bacteria. But the wrong amount of treatment to the water can burn a swimmer’s skin. Chemical...
A new campaign launched by the Utah Department of ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ’s (UDOH) Cancer Control Program (UCCP) and Utah’s local health departments features pediatricians telling parents about the importance of getting their...
(US Dept. of Veterans Affairs) - 2014 Presidential Scholarship for New ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ Researchers Megan Vanneman, Ph.D. Dr. Vanneman is a joint postdoctoral fellow in health services research at the...
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Jun 12, 2014
(Counsel & Heal) - Childhood cancer survivors were hospitalized more often and for longer duration, after many years of cancer treatment compared to general population, according to a new study...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A documentary is being produced about the Ogden native's resilience in the face of a life-robbing neurological disorder similar to amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or...
Dr. Wendy Chapman and Dr. Wendy Hobson-Rohrer are now a part of the 2014 Hedwig van Ameringen Executive Leadership in Academic Medicine (ELAM) Fellowship.
For patients with type 1 diabetes (T1D), the very drug on which their life depends - injectable insulin - can create complications. Utah Science Technology and Research (USTAR) initiative has...
New space to study ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵren's and families' cancers, advance risk assessment and prevention, develop pre-clinical research models, increase advanced therapeutics, improve survivorship, address health disparities, and create new biotechnology center
(Deseret News) - SALT LAKE CITY - Six months after a historic heart procedure, Ernie Lively is living up to his name.
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Jun 09, 2014
(Smithsonian.com) - While anthropologists and evolutionary biologists are quite good at figuring out how and when humans evolved, figuring out why we are the way we are is much more...
In the News
Jun 06, 2014
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute has begun construction on a $105 million research wing dedicated to the study of ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵhood and family cancers ––...
Four new genes have been added to the growing list of those known to cause increased breast cancer risk when mutated through the efforts of researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute...
ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ Care is one of several prestigious health care systems featured in the article by Thomas H. Lee and Toby Cosgrove, titled "Engaging Doctors in the ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ...
Researchers have found that the reduction of a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease is an independent risk factor for renal and urothelial cancer.
Scientists at the ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Utah (U of U), the ÈËÆÞÖгöÊÓƵ of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston and colleagues have developed a powerful tool called pVAAST that combines...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - With CPR and AED Awareness Week (June 1-7) just around the corner, the American Heart Association would like to congratulate the Utah Legislature and Gov...
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May 29, 2014
(The Wall Street Journal) - LANDOVER, MD – The Epilepsy Foundation announced today that H. Steven White, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology and toxicology and principal investigator of the National Institutes...
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May 29, 2014
(Science Daily) - Reduced glomerular filtration rate (GFR) - a key measure of reduced kidney function and chronic kidney disease (CKD) - is an independent risk factor for renal and...