University of Utah professor of internal medicine Jay A. Jacobson, M.D., received the American Medical Association’s (AMA) highest honor in medical ethics-the Isaac Hayes, MD, and John Bell, MD, Award for Leadership in Medical Ethics and Professionalism.
Read MoreThe University of Utah College of Nursing’s efforts to help diversify the nursing workforce got a boost recently with a $736,831 grant for its Diversity Recruitment, Retention, and Leadership Development program.
Read MoreA new study from the University of Utah and the University of California, Los Angeles, found how a hormone called hepcidin regulates the iron uptake from the diet and its distribution in the body. The study may lead to future treatments for chronic anemia and for diseases of iron overload, such as hemochromatosis.
Read MoreIn a pair of new studies, University of Utah scientists took early but significant steps to fight a particularly deadly childhood muscle cancer by identifying some of the genetic events that cause the disease and then engineering mice that develop the tumors. The genetic events might be targets for new drugs that could be tested on the mice.
Read More“What’s in your backpack?” It’s a question worth asking school children as a way of reminding them that heavy backpacks, combined with a sedentary lifestyle, don’t make for healthy backs, according to experts from the University of Utah College of Health’s Division of Occupational Therapy.
Read MoreAs research on human genes advances, awareness of genetic diseases and the need for highly qualified genetic counselors increase. In anticipation of this demand, the University of Utah School of Medicine is offering the Graduate Program in Genetic Counseling beginning next fall.
Read MoreThe University of Utah is launching a series of monthly lectures dealing with emerging infectious diseases – SARS, new flu strains, hantavirus and others – and our defenses against those diseases and bioterrorism.
Read MoreUtah’s top scientists and researchers have been honored for their achievements during the presentation of the Governor’s Medal Awards for Science and Technology.
Read MoreUtah’s shortage of geriatric nurses is the worst in the country, but a new program at the University of Utah College of Nursing aims to remedy that.
Read MoreThe National Alliance for Autism Research (NAAR) today announced the launch of the NAAR Autism Genome Project, the largest study ever conducted to find the genes associated with inherited risk for autism.
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