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Can You Trust This Article? Distinguishing Information from Misinformation

Knowing how to spot trustworthy health information can help you make informed choices about your own health and the health of those around you鈥攁nd avoid the real risks of taking health fiction as fact. We asked communication researchers how to...
1-Apr-2025 9:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Research Finds Potential 鈥淢olecular Mimics鈥� Behind COVID-Induced Autoimmune Disease

COVID infection has been linked to higher risk of autoimmune disorders, including rheumatoid arthritis and type 1 diabetes. Scientists used advanced data analysis and machine learning to identify viral proteins that are more likely to trigger...
26-Mar-2025 9:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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New Drug Therapy Combination Shows Promise for Advanced Melanoma Patients

A novel oral combination drug therapy evaluated at Huntsman Cancer Institute could treat and prevent melanoma spreading to the brain. Brain metastasis is the main cause of death from melanoma.
21-Mar-2025 10:25 AM EDT Add to Favorites

Early-Life Gut Microbes May Protect Against Diabetes, Research in Mice Suggests

Gut microbes shape pancreas development in infancy, leading to long-term changes in diabetes risk, new research in mice has found. The results could ultimately help doctors reduce the risk of type 1 diabetes鈥攐r potentially even restore lost...
3-Mar-2025 7:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

Center for Medical Cannabis Research Hosts Statewide Symposium on Emerging Cannabis Science

Much remains unknown about the risks and benefits of medical cannabis, and as use rates spike, research is urgently needed to understand the full health, social, and even environmental impacts of these medications.
13-Feb-2025 9:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

Bringing Cancer Care Closer to Home: Federal Program Expands Treatment to Rural and Frontier Communities

The federally funded program aims to improve cancer care for rural and frontier residents in the Mountain West, bringing the latest in cancer care by providing access to clinical trials.
12-Feb-2025 8:25 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Gene Variant Could Protect Against Ultra-Rare Seizure Disorder, Fruit Fly Research Finds

The potentially protective gene, CNTN2, is altered in asymptomatic family members of people with the seizure disorder. Similar genetic alterations decrease seizure severity in fruit flies with the disorder.
5-Feb-2025 11:00 AM EST Add to Favorites

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Short-Course Radiation Therapy Effective for Endometrial Cancer Patients

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute have found that fewer sessions of higher dose vaginal cuff brachytherapy work just as well as more frequent, lower-dose treatments for endometrial cancer patients.
11-Feb-2025 9:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Expert Available: is African American underrepresentation in nature a myth?

9-Feb-2024 12:05 PM EST

Bisexual Individuals Are Particularly Vulnerable to Food Insecurity

10-Aug-2023 6:05 AM EDT

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Celine Dion announced she has stiff-person syndrome. What is it? @UofUHealth expert available

8-Dec-2022 4:45 PM EST

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CDC Data Suggests Attitudes Are Shifting About the HPV Vaccine: Utah Vaccine Rates Among Teens Increased More Than 16%

Many more Utah teens are getting vaccinated for HPV, protecting them against six types of cancer. The state saw a significant increase in HPV vaccinations after a long history of mixed messages and misunderstandings about the vaccine. Huntsman...
4-Nov-2022 5:00 PM EDT

Racial Disparities in Health and Health Care 鈥� @UofUHealth Expert Available

3-Nov-2022 4:40 PM EDT

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University of Utah Health testing male contraception gel that lowers sperm count without nixing sex drive

20-Jan-2022 1:40 PM EST

Wildfire Smoke May Increase Risk to COVID-19 Infection

Wildfires are becoming more common and severe due to climate change and warmer and drier conditions in the West. As wildfire season rages in the United States, people are also at increased risk for COVID-19 infection due to wildfire smoke.
4-Sep-2020 2:35 PM EDT

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What is known about the childhood inflammatory condition linked to Covid-19, Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children (MIS-C)?

21-May-2020 6:25 PM EDT

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University of Utah Health is the state鈥檚 only academic health care system, providing leading-edge and compassionate care for a referral area that encompasses 10 percent of the US, including Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, and much of Nevada. A hub for health sciences research and education in the region, U of U Health touts a $458 million research enterprise and trains the majority of Utah鈥檚 physicians, and more than 1,670 scientists and 1,460 health care providers each year at its Colleges of Health, Nursing, and Pharmacy and Schools of Dentistry and Medicine. With more than 20,000 employees, the system includes 12 community clinics and five hospitals: University Hospital, Huntsman Mental Health Institute, Huntsman Cancer Hospital, University Orthopaedic Center, and the Craig H. Neilsen Rehabilitation Hospital. For 13 straight years, U of U Health has ranked among the top 10 US academic medical centers in the rigorous Vizient Quality and Accountability Study.