In early 2018, the University of Utah Health Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery was awarded the Edwards Every Heartbeat Matters grant through the Thoracic Surgery Foundation. The receipt of this grant...
No one likes to have cold hands. But imagine if your hands got cold and then couldn’t warm up? This is what happens to people dealing with Raynaud’s phenomenon. In...
This podcast shares the habits and practices of peak performers and top leaders, from many walks of life; physicians, senior executives, entrepreneurs, and academics. And from every season, from the...
People may not realize lung cancer is the second most common cancer in people. Each year, more people die of lung cancer than colon, breast and prostate cancer combined.
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer in men and women. Each year, more people die of lung cancer than of colon, breast and prostate cancers combined. The American...
Tracee Bessinger thought it was a little strange when one day she ran out of breath walking from her bedroom to her bathroom. She figured maybe she was just out...
It had been years since avid golfer Curtis Watkins was able to play a round of his favorite sport. He still got to spend time out on the course, but...
United Business Media (UBM) will honor Robert Jarvik, MD, for Lifetime Achievement during the Medical Design Excellence Awards ceremony at Medical Design & Manufacturing (MD&M) East on June 12 in...
When Thomas Varghese relocated from Seattle to take a job at the University of Utah, his colleagues warned him he wouldn’t make much use of his expertise in lung cancer...
John Stringham, MD, recently joined Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) and the University of Utah from University of Virginia Health System. A cardiothoracic surgeon, he specializes in lung transplant surgery and...
Ashley Biehl was 26 when she had a heart attack. It sounds unbelievable, but heart disease can happen to anyone—at any age. Don't let heart disease sneak up on you...
Congratulations to Craig Selzman, MD, Professor of Surgery and Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery at University of Utah Health. He has been awarded the “Physician” award in the 2017 Healthcare Heroes...
The University of Utah’s Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery has received an International Cardiac Surgical Outreach Award through Edwards Lifesciences Foundation and the Thoracic Surgery Foundation.
How can physicians move toward an alternative mode of scholarship — one that’s still scientifically rigorous and peer reviewed but communicated in a more accessible manner? Cardiothoracic surgeon Tom Varghese...
Is zero possible? In the case of central line infections, the answer was once no. A CLABSI (central line associated blood stream infection) was once considered a car crash, or...
