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Be Well What?
There's a lot of talk this week about Be Well Utah. It's a full week of activities celebrating health and wellness sponsored by the U and Regence BlueCross BlueShield. Looking for info? Check out the official Be Well Utah site. Be sure to watch the video!
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Joyce Mitchell - Nationally Respected Leader in Biomedical Informatics - Announces Retirement
For almost eight years, the U has benefited from Joyce Mitchell's leadership as one of the country's leading experts and scholars in biomedical informatics - the science of using computers to gather, manage, and analyze biomedical and patient information to improve individualized patient health care. "It has been an honor working here," says Mitchell, who will retire at the end of this year and pass the leadership torch on to someone else.
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Research to Treat Blood Clots in People With Diabetes and Other Metabolic Disorders Gets $16 Million Boost from NIH
A team of researchers in the Department of Medicine have received $16 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to set up a translational research center at the U to study the cellular and molecular causes of blood clots, a serious threat to millions of people who have diabetes, are obese or have other metabolic disorders. The money will help set up a new center with the goal of applying basic and laboratory science to find new diagnostic, preventative, and therapeutic measures for thrombosis, or blood clotting, and then make them available to patients as rapidly as possible.
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A Pretty Great State? Gallup Thinks So
Utah leads the nation as the best place to live according to new research from the Gallup Corp. They looked at 13 forward-looking metrics including economic confidence, job creation, and standard of living. Sounds about right to us. In the words of early Utah leader Brigham Young, if you're looking for a great place to do your post-graduate medical residency "This is the place."
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High Speed Medical Care at the Tour of Utah
University of Utah Health Care is proud to be the official medical sponsor of this year's Tour of Utah. Dr. Brad Rockwell leads the medical team and offers his perspective on the race, the challenges his team faces, and provides a few health and safety tips for the recreational rider.
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U Researchers Find Surprising New Ally in the Fight Against Depression
Women battling stubborn major depression may have a surprising new ally in their fight -- the muscle-building dietary supplement creatine. In a new proof-of-concept study, researchers from three South Korean universities and the University of Utah report that women with major depressive disorder (MDD) who augmented their daily antidepressant with 5 grams of creatine responded twice as fast and experienced remission of the illness at twice the rate of women who took the antidepressant alone.
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Celebrating World Breastfeeding Week
Elizabeth Smith remembers when University Hospital was designated Baby Friendly as World Breastfeeding Week celebrates 20 years.
Read moreHepatitis C a Growing Concern
Hepatitis C is a growing health care issue in the United States. Yearly deaths from HCV will increase over the next few decades.
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