They are always surrounded by germs and viruses. So doesn’t it make you wonder why your doctors and nurses never seems to get sick? Emergency room physician Dr. Troy Madsen...
Our genetic code is made up of 3.3 billion base pairs of DNA, and one single base pair change can be enough to put someone at risk for developing disease...
With the ski and snowboarding season here, Dr. Jeffrey Greenbaum from St. John’s Medical Center talks about the types of injuries that can occur on the slopes and what might...
Is it food poisoning? A stomach bug? The latest food contamination you heard about on the news? Or is it simply something you ate that doesn’t agree with you? When...
Carl Wittwer, one of three health sciences faculty recently made a fellow in the National Academy of Inventors, describes his work involving PCR, a way to copy fragments of DNA...
Dr. Glen Prestwich, who holds 27 patents, has founded eight companies and was just made a fellow in the National Academy of Inventors, discusses the University of Utah’s remarkable record...
University of Utah researchers have discovered a genetic variation in mice that predisposes them toward developing severe, inflammatory arthritis. The finding implicates a new class of genes in arthritis progression...
University of Utah researcher, Janet Iwasa, Ph.D., has discovered that visual representations spark scientific discussions. Molecular animators are making movies starring cells, proteins, viruses, and more, and research as scientists...
You’re at a holiday dinner and you think someone is choking on food – should you give them the Heimlich maneuver? Does it really work? Emergency room physician Dr. Troy...
Although prostate cancer isn’t likely to kill you, it can have a very negative impact on your quality of life. For men who have been diagnosed with the disease, figuring...
If you think the use of leeches to bleed people died with the Middle Ages, you might be surprised to learn that the slimy bugs are used in modern medicine...
Degloving sounds pretty gruesome, and it can happen if you put your hand in the snowblower – even if it’s not running. And surprisingly, it’s not the arms and hands...
Borrowing tools from Hollywood, Dr. Janet Iwasa, Research Assistant Professor in Biochemistry at the University of Utah, transforms research findings into lively, 3-D animated movies. She says the process causes...
The stigma associated with lung cancer is that it’s a smokers’ disease and they’ve brought it on themselves. While it’s true that 90 percent of lung cancer cases are smoking...
Utah’s unique resources of genealogy and cancer data, combined with records from two major health care organizations, made it possible for researchers to determine that the current screening guidelines allow...
You’re having chest pains and difficulty breathing, and no one is around to take you to the emergency room. You may not want to call 911 and tie up the...
We know pomegranates are huge during the fall season. But apples also are harvested in the fall. That’s when they’re the tastiest because the sugar content is the highest. Oranges...
Your energy level is down, you’re putting on weight, your mood is affected and your sex drive is decreased. You might have low testosterone. Ads for testosterone therapy flood the...
If you could only concentrate on just one thing to live a healthier life, what do you think that one thing would be? According to Dr. Tom Miller at the...
Vegetarian diets can be perfectly healthy for kids of all ages, even infants, but it's important to not let them be a french-fry-vegetarian, which focuses only on not eating meat...
You're approaching an intersection when you come across a terrible accident. While it may be your gut reaction to jump in and help, that may not be the best course...
Doctors call it Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MSRA), but you might know it better as a staph infection. It's a nasty problem that's on the rise in children. Dr. Cindy Gellner...
