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• Health Insurers Agree to End Discrimination Based on Gender

  Bret Hanna | May 07, 2009 11:42 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  At long last, health insurers have agree to end discrimination in the form of charging women higher premiums than men for identical coverage. Senator John Kerry introduced a bill on Tuesday that...

• Human Embryos With DNA from Three People

  Amy Schauers | February 06, 2008 9:07 AM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Scientists in Britain have created human embryos with DNA from two women and one man. Patrick Chinnery, a professor of neurogenetics, said that the intent is not to alter genes but to exchange bad ones for good ones. They are trying to create healthy embryos in order to avoid passing on diseases such as muscular dystrophy, epilepsy, strokes and mental retardation.The genes being replaced are...

• University of Utah's Mario Capecchi Wins 2007 Nobel Prize In Medicine

  Amy Schauers | December 10, 2007 4:54 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Capecchi and two of his colleagues Oliver Smithies, D.Phil and Sir Martin Evans, Ph.D received the Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on developing technology to manipulate genes in mice. "This is a tremendous honor for our University, for our Department of Human Genetics, and, specifically, for all the members of my laboratory, past and present who have contributed to this work," said...

• EnergySolutions To Bring 20,000 Tons Nuclear Waste To Utah

  Amy Schauers | November 30, 2007 1:43 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  EnergySolutions applied to the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission to bring 20,000 tons of nuclear waste to Utah. This enormous amount of waste would come from Italy and could make Utah the worlds dump site. Before approving the license, the NRC must publish a notice in the Federal Register and allow comments from the public and affected government entities. The notice has not yet been...

• Dangers of Energy Drinks

  Amy Schauers | November 07, 2007 3:24 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  According to a study by the Wayne State Undergraduate Research Fund, energy drinks can raise blood pressure. This may impact those with hypertension, cardiovascular disease, or those who are taking medication to lower blood pressure. The study also found that energy drinks that equal two cups of coffee may also effect young healthy people. Consumption of two energy drinks a day increased...

• Bayer Pulls Heart Surgery Medication

  Amy Schauers | November 06, 2007 5:25 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  After a study showed that the heart surgery drug Trasylol increases death rates, the pharmaceutical company Bayer pulled the drug. The study was the latest in a series of worrisome signs that Trasylol could be dangerous. Last year, a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine found that the drug increased the risks of kidney failure, heart attack and stroke. That research concluded...

• Gynecologist Diagnosed With Breast Cancer

  Amy Schauers | October 25, 2007 1:44 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Saudi Arabian gynecologist Samia Al-Amoudi was shocked to learn that she had self diagnosed her own stage three breast cancer last year. Al-Amoudi admits that as she worked with her female patients she encouraged them to have regular mammograms and to do their own self-breast exams but never took these precautions for herself.Al-Amoudi is now determined to help the women of Saudi Arabia. She...

• $23 Million for Pediatric Research

  Amy Schauers | October 24, 2007 3:26 PM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  A $23 million dollar gift was announced today to The Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. This generous funding was given by the Richard King Mellon Foundation to establish a new institute to research illnesses in children. With this new facility the Children's Hospital expects groundbreaking medical advancement and the public hopes for new treatments in pediatric medicine."With this institute...

• Search Continues For Trapped Utah Miners

  Courtney Mills | August 27, 2007 9:25 AM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  The search for the six miners at the collapsed Crandall Canyon Mine goes on near Huntington, Utah, now trapped since August 6th. Families received some measure of satisfaction over the weekend upon discovery that rescue crews had decided to introduce a special camera-outfitted robot for surveying the deep underground.Rescue crews hope that the camera-robot, the same kind used at Ground Zero to...

• Utah Rescuers Working to Free Trapped Miners

  Courtney Mills | August 13, 2007 9:47 AM | 0 CommentsSalt Lake City, UT

  Rescuers in anguish hoped to find trapped miners by drilling a third hole and proceeding from that point, authorities reported at the scene. Rescue authorities have already drilled two holes to reach the miners in the collapsed Crandall Canyon mine, but were having trouble reaching their colleagues because of several seismic anomalies. The nightmare has gone on for several days and nights,...