(The Salt Lake Tribune) - A newspaper ad prompted 83-year-old Wanda Parkinson of Kearns to volunteer for a lung cancer study. Marcia Michael, a 75-year-old Holladay resident, talked her doctor...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Scott Youngquist is trained to save lives, not pull teeth. But rarely does the emergency-room doctor end a 12-hour shift at University Hospital without seeing...
(KSL) - SALT LAKE CITY - It used to be called "mass hysteria," and there are famous cases of it in centuries past. This condition, now known as conversion disorder...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Ogden - By the time Camilla Black Grondahl became pregnant with her second child in 2010, she had already watched two older sisters bury sons...
(Deseret News) - I think another definition of a good death is that all the decision makers have arrived at a place of peace in their hearts. – Dr. Joan...
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it’s still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. – Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
(Deseret News) - After all these years, it’s still difficult for people to understand that hospice does not mean giving up. – Stephanie Lucas, hospice family services coordinator for Intermountain...
(NPR) - It's a new kind of brinksmanship for U.S. doctors: caring for patients with life-threatening diseases when the supply of critical drugs threatens to disappear.
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Cancer doctors who want to give patients new "smart" drugs in their offices - a practice now forbidden in Utah - will soon take their...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - BRIGHTON - Tucker, the 4-month-old black Labrador Retriever, locked his legs and did his best to get off of his leash as Lauren Edwards pulled...
(KSL) - SOUTH JORDAN - The new 208,000-square-foot South Jordan Health Center officially opened its doors Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The center, which is University of Utah Health Care's...
(U.S. Pharmacist) - The United States is currently experiencing the most severe shortages of certain drugs in its history. Maybe this is not “news” in the sense that an inability...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - RICHMOND, Va. (AP) - The University of Utah's medical school is among more than 100 nationwide uniting to improve health care for America's veterans under...
(Huffington Post) - Obese people who had weight-loss surgery were less likely to later suffer a heart attack or stroke, or to die from one, compared to people who did...
(Reuters) - Obese people who had weight-loss surgery were less likely to later suffer a heart attack or stroke, or to die from one, compared to people who did not...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - That's because she's "a doer," one full of insights and a drive for excellence, according to former colleagues in Manhattan, where Lee was vice dean...
(Deseret News) - SANDY - Here's an unforgettable Christmas scene from the past: a younger Brady Cook, agitated because his current obsession, a battery-powered toy drill that was under the...
(The Salt Lake Tribune) - Hobbled by doctors who seemed unable to diagnose the rare intestinal disorder that wracked her 14-year-old son's body with constant pain, Vicki Whiting never thought...
(Deseret News) - University of Utah Health Care's AirMed and Mountain View Hospital celebrate full-time service in southern Utah County with a new Payson base on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2011.
(TIME) - When reality TV star Michelle Duggar announced last week that she’d learned at 19? weeks that her baby-to-be no longer had a heartbeat, the very personal topic of...