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Few treatments exist for neurodegenerative diseases that progressively rob a person’s ability to move and think, yet the results of a new study is opening additional approaches for exploration. ... Read More
Neurology
Quality of researchers and programs pays off in a historic record-breaking funding year.... Read More
Biochemistry
The University of Utah’s Rocky Mountain Center for Occupational and Environmental Health (RMCOEH) has won a $8.43 million, 5-year grant from the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to train graduate students and residents and conduct research in occupational safety and health.... Read More
Family and Preventive Medicine
Researchers at University of Utah Health have developed high-tech tools to uncover the genetic cause of the most difficult to diagnose cases of early childhood seizures.... Read More
Pediatrics,Human Genetics
Inducing labor in healthy women at 39 weeks into their pregnancy reduces the need for cesarean section and is at least as safe for mother and baby as waiting for spontaneous labor. Choosing to induce could also reduce the risk that mothers will develop preeclampsia and that newborns will need respiratory support after delivery, according to a study publishing online in the New England Journal of Medicine.... Read More
Obstetrics and Gynecology
New research offers clues as to why some diseases are highly variable between individuals. The phenomenon is apparent in retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that causes the light-sensing cells in the eye to degenerate. By analyzing thousands of flies, scientists at University of Utah Health found that variation in a background gene, called Baldspot, can make a difference in severity of the disease.... Read More
Human Genetics
