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Advancing Youth In Medical Education
It's an opportunity most high school kids never experience- getting outside the classroom and working side-by-side with medical students. But 40 local teens took their futures in their own hands and spent their summer with University of Utah medical students.
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Williams Syndrome: A Unique Lens on Human Behavior
Julie R. Korenberg, Ph.D., M.D., Li Dai, Ph.D., and Jian Ying, all from the University of Utah School of Medicine, entered a poster presentation of a recently published abstract at the annual conference of the Society of Neuroscience. More than 35,000 abstracts were submitted but only about 350 made the cut as a 'hot topic' at the conference. Dr. Korenberg's and her colleagues' poster was among those accepted.
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The Value of the Poison Center System
The Utah Poison Control Center and America¿s other 56 poison centers save Americans more than $1.8 billion every year in medical costs. But more importantly, the centers save countless lives each year.
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Ballard Scholar Remembers Mentor and Friend
Medical student and Ballard Scholar Tony Trinh thanks the man he calls his mentor and friend, Robert H. Ballard.
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$21.8 Million Grant Renewal to Aid HIV Center in Imaging Research
Five years after winning a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to set up a center to study HIV, the University of Utah has been awarded $21.8 million more to develop ways to image and understand the structural biology of the virus and cells that it infects.
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A Signal of Hope for Pediatric Neurodevelopment Disorders
Every day, as Josh Bonkowsky, MD, PhD, cares for his young patients and their families, he is motivated in pushing his research forward to ultimately improve treatments for their disorders. As a pediatric neurologist specialist, being on the frontlines of patient care was the catalyst for the "Aha" moment that revealed an original approach to better understanding the nervous system and how the brain circuitry develops and functions.
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U of U Department of Psychiatry Releases Follow-up Study on Autism and Mortality
Recently, a follow-up study of the 1980s Utah/UCLA Autism Epidemiologic Study done by researchers in the U of U Department of Psychiatry was published in the Journal of Autism and Developmental Disabilities.
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Doc Passes Love for Relationship-Building on to Students
Returning to a University of Utah very different from the one she herself attended for medical school, Pippitt now directs the Longitudinal Clinical Experience that gives first- and second-year students the hands-on primary care exposure that Pippitt never had in her first years of medical school.
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Therapeutic Video Games?
Video games are often criticized for supposedly contributing to inactivity and obesity. A new study discusses a new genre of specially created video games that provide therapeutic value.
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What Happens To Our Voice As We Age?
As we age, we know to expect various changes physically and mentally. But what about our voice?
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