Project ECHO or Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes, is working to provide “health care without walls” by bridging the gap between primary and specialty care. They have recently added the...
Understanding the clustering of pelvic floor disorders (PFDs) within families is important, since it may suggest underlying risk factors that may be environmental, genetic or both.
Researchers at the University of Utah in collaboration with the University of Georgia have identified a previously unknown process that many bacteria, including those that cause disease in humans, use...
Recently, a rare variant in the amyloid precursor protein gene (APP) was described in a population from Iceland. This variant, in which alanine is replaced by threonine at position 673...
A team of researchers at Utah's Huntsman Cancer Institute has discovered that a more complete, extended family history helps when determining a man's risk for prostate cancer.
Dr. Prchal was appointed by University of Utah President David Pershing as the inaugural holder of the Charles A. Nugent and Margaret Nugent Chair in the Department of Internal Medicine.
The cause of most pituitary tumors remains unknown, although a genetic contribution is recognized for some. The prevalence of pituitary tumors in the general population is high. Analyzing the Utah...
People who develop tumors in their pituitary gland have a significantly higher risk for other, unrelated types of cancer—and so do their relatives, a new study using records from the...
Gliomas traditionally have been sub-classified based on histopathological observations. However, this approach is subject to inter-observer variability, and histopathological features may not reflect the biological mechanisms that drive tumor growth...
We would like to announce the addition of Dr. Daniel Leung to our Infectious Disease faculty. Prior to joining the University of Utah, Dr. Leung was an Instructor of Medicine...
We are very pleased to announce our new ID fellows who have matched for July 2014. Welcome Dr. Anne Michal Stevens (Med College of Wisconsin; Milwaukee , Wisconsin), Dr. Tim...
A novel analysis of a computerized population-based resource linking genealogy and cancer data was used to test the hypothesis of a role of the Y chromosome in prostate cancer predisposition.
Geneticist Dr. Lisa Cannon-Albright explains how knowing your genealogy can give you a head start in understanding your risk for developing disease. She also describes her work building a genealogy...
Dr. Sankar Swaminathan, Dajiang Li, and Dinesh Verma recently had their journal article "Binding of cellular export factor REF/Aly by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) ORF57 protein is not required for...
