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Apps, AI, and the Future of Health Take Center Stage at DHI Symposium

More than a hundred researchers convened to brainstorm tools with the potential to extend care beyond the clinic, help doctors optimize care for each patient, and empower people to manage their own care.
14-Mar-2024 5:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Two New CZI Awards Power Studies of Metabolism and Intergenerational Memory

$2 million in total funds will accelerate interdisciplinary neurobiology research and scale up a search for new rules of human biochemistry.
12-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Journey to Health Brings Nutrition Education to All

Participants in the program saw improved blood pressure, BMI, and triglycerides.
12-Mar-2024 3:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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ECHO Project Uncovers How the Environment Shapes Kids’ Health

The study has led to more than a hundred scientific papers and recently received $14M in grant funding.
8-Mar-2024 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Rare but not forgotten

Finding treatments for children with rare diseases has been a significant hurdle in the medical world. An unexpected source, the common fruit fly, is turning up answers.
28-Feb-2024 11:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Seeking Answers: ReSeq Project Doesn't Give Up on Finding a Diagnosis for Critically Ill Kids

For critically ill children with unknown genetic disorders, genome sequencing can be a powerful diagnostic tool, yet more than half of sequenced kids remain undiagnosed. Where standard clinical genome analysis fails to reach a diagnosis, ReSeq’s...
22-Feb-2024 6:05 PM EST Add to Favorites

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From Hidden History to Robot Surgery

The annual conference brought together hundreds of scientists interested in finding ways to harness big data to answer previously unsolvable questions.
5-Feb-2024 4:05 PM EST Add to Favorites


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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

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

Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C): What You Need to Know

A panel of University of Utah Health and Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital experts answered questions about what is known about Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome (MIS-C) so far.
25-May-2020 8:55 AM EDT

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