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Cell therapy may mend damaged hearts, study says

End-stage heart failure patients treated with stem cells harvested from their own bone marrow experienced 37 percent fewer cardiac events - including deaths and hospital admissions related to heart...

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Military sexual trauma associated with higher risk for veteran homelessness

The devastating consequences of sexual trauma in the military reported by 25 percent of female and 1 percent of male veterans who served in the U.S. armed forces don't end with psychological and...

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Infants much less likely to get the flu if moms are vaccinated while pregnant

Babies whose moms get flu vaccinations while pregnant have a significantly reduced risk of acquiring influenza during their first six months of life, a new study shows, leading the authors to declare...

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Study contradicts belief that cancer protects against Alzheimer's

Despite studies that claim people with cancer are less likely to develop Alzheimer's disease—raising the possibility that what triggers cancer also prevents the neurodegenerative disorder—a new...

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Even frail, older adults could benefit from intensive blood pressure reduction

Adults with hypertension who are age 75 years and older, including those who are frail and with poor overall health, could benefit from lowering their blood pressure below current medical guidelines....

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Metagenomics pathogen detection tool could change how infectious diseases are...

Scientists at the University of Utah, ARUP Laboratories, and IDbyDNA, Inc., have developed ultra-fast, meta-genomics analysis software called Taxonomer that dramatically improves the accuracy and speed...

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Rare eye disease that struck Oliver Sacks gives rise to new cancer treatment...

Eye cancer took the life of author and neurologist Oliver Sacks last year, bringing attention to the rare and deadly disease. Scientists have tried to develop precision treatments against cancers like...

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Size matters: Advance could increase sensitivity of liquid biopsies

The liquid biopsy, a new type of blood test for detecting and monitoring cancer, is a welcome reprieve from typical biopsies. The minimally invasive test could reduce the need for the sometimes painful...

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Factor isolated from babies' cord blood could treat harmful inflammation, sepsis

A factor found in umbilical cord blood could become the basis for developing a new therapy to fight harmful inflammation, University of Utah School of Medicine researchers report. When given to mice,...

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Moving the needle on health care quality and costs

Bucking national trends, a new study shows that a program is making a difference in healthcare quality and cost. Developed by University of Utah Health Care (UUHC), the so-called value driven outcomes...

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Case study reports details of mysterious Utah Zika-related death

The first Zika virus-related death in the continental U.S. occurred in June of this year, but even now, months later, two aspects of this case continue to puzzle health experts. First, why did this...

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Rich or poor? Where you start in life influences cancer risk in adulthood

Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah announced today the results of a study that found that circumstances in childhood, such as parental occupation at birth and...

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'That pizza was #delish!' What do Tweets say about our health?

"Coffee" was the most tweeted food in the continental U.S. between mid-2014 to mid-2015 followed by "beer" then "pizza". Besides hinting at which foods are popular, tweets may reveal something about...

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Promise of better targeted treatments now possible in children's brain cancer

More than 4,000 children and teens are diagnosed with brain cancer each year and the disease kills more children than any other cancer. Writing this week in the journal Cell Reports, researchers at...

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Is more, better? Finding the balance between nutritional supplements and eye...

In the past decade, ophthalmologists have been prescribing nutritional supplements to be taken daily to prevent or slow vision loss from age-related macular degeneration (AMD). Now, using nutritional...

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Research could explain why some obese people develop diabetes while others don't

For years, scientists have known that someone who is thin could still end up with diabetes. Yet an obese person may be surprisingly healthy.

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This is your brain on God: Spiritual experiences activate brain reward circuits

Religious and spiritual experiences activate the brain reward circuits in much the same way as love, sex, gambling, drugs and music, report researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine. The...

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Virus-inspired delivery system transfers microscopic cargo between human cells

Scientists from the University of Utah and University of Washington have developed blueprints that instruct human cells to assemble a virus-like delivery system that can transport custom cargo from one...

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Shoulder pain linked to increased heart disease risk

After all the lifting, hauling, and wrapping, worn out gift givers may blame the season's physical strain for any shoulder soreness they are feeling. It turns out there could be another reason. A new...

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Research holds promise for personalized lung cancer treatments

New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah uncovered distinct types of tumors within small cell lung cancer that look and act differently from one...

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Biomarker could identify patients with potential for recovery from advanced...

Investigators at the University of Utah have identified distinct differences in the hearts of advanced heart failure patients who have defied the odds and showed signs of recovery from the disease....

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How safe is that driver next to you? A trucker's poor health could increase...

As commuters shimmy past large, lumbering trucks on the road, they may glance over and wonder, "How safe is that driver next to me?" If the truck driver is in poor health, the answer could be: Not...

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Huntsman scientists identify bone degradation process within metastatic...

Once breast cancer spreads through the body, it can degrade a patient's healthy bones, causing numerous problems. Scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have identified...

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Genomes in flux: New study reveals hidden dynamics of bird and mammal DNA...

Evolution is often thought of as a gradual remodeling of the genome, the genetic blueprints for building an organism. But in some instance it might be more appropriate to call it an overhaul. Over the...

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Intensive blood pressure control could prevent 100,000 deaths each year

Researchers have projected that aggressively lowering blood pressure could help prevent more than 100,000 deaths in the U.S. each year.

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Scientists discover how epithelial cells maintain constant cell numbers

Research published today in Nature from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah shows how epithelial cells naturally turn over, maintaining constant numbers between cell...

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Is preeclampsia a risk or a protective factor in retinopathy of prematurity?

Mary Elizabeth Hartnett, MD, and colleagues at the John A. Moran Center and Department of Pediatrics at the University of Utah and Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, were looking for a way to tease...

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Playing favorites: Brain cells prefer one parent's gene over the other's

Most kids say they love their mom and dad equally, but there are times when even the best prefers one parent over the other. The same can be said for how the body's cells treat our DNA instructions. It...

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Two common tests aren't effective in predicting premature births, says new...

Two screening tests often used to try to predict which pregnant women are likely to deliver prematurely aren't effective in low-risk women, according to a national collaborative study of more than...

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Researchers trace timeline of tumor evolution in metastatic breast cancer...

A new study by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah observed how breast cancer tumors evolve over time and demonstrated how changes within tumors may contribute to...

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