2+ hour, 48+ min ago  (548+ words) Babies born to lower-income families are more likely to be born too small or too early'and in some cases, disparities are getting worse, according to new research by Harvard University and University of Utah researchers. The study, which included 380,000 births…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago  (228+ words) Reposted from Huntsman Cancer Institute. Researchers say the tool, which is not yet used in clinical settings,may help reduce unnecessary treatments and side effects byquicklyidentifyingwhich therapies a patient's cancer cells are sensitive to. Thedevice,called'Pharma, delivers results in under…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago  (720+ words) Just as curbs can act as physical barriers for people using wheelchairs trying to access a sidewalk, web content incompatible with screen readers is unusable for2.2 billion people worldwideliving with vision impairments. These barriers aren't just inconvenient " they carry real legal…...

1+ week, 1+ hour ago  (445+ words) Originally, when I came on, we had a CEO for the Huntsman Mental Health Institute who was also the department chair of psychiatry, and we had a grand challenge to become a nationally leading authority on mental health needs and…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago  (564+ words) Reposted from U of U Health. Suicide rates in the U.S. have been steadily rising since the late 1990s, leading to an urgent need to understand what's putting people at risk. Risk factors include high air pollution and hot temperatures, which have…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (529+ words) University of Utah President Taylor Randall has named five faculty members as the 2026-27 Presidential Societal Impact Scholars for exemplary public engagement'from improve maternal health outcomes and providing care to marginalized patients to acting on behalf of vulnerable populations. To be…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago  (583+ words) Reposted from U of U Health's Good Notes blog. Why don't researchers know as much about women's health as they do about lung cancer or heart disease? Because historically, women were largely excluded from medical research, so conditions that only…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (646+ words) A new University of Utah-led study has discovered the mechanism behind a decades-old evolutionary mystery'how "selfish chromosomes" cheat the rules of genetic inheritance. The researchers found that rogue chromosomes hijack the Overdrive (Ovd) gene to destroy rival sperm. The study…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (960+ words) Reposted from U of U Health Good Notes blog. When I walk into the room where we store the blood samples from the Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) study, I don't feel like I'm just entering a lab. Inside…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (348+ words) Reposted from U of U Health. In September 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration cleared the Apple Watch Hypertension Notifications Feature, a cuffless tool that uses the watch's optical sensors to detect blood flow patterns and alert users when their data…...