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Mutual Creation by Tyler Kellis at Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library in Salt Lake City, Utah, on July 6, 2022. (Photo by Xiangyao Axe Tang | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

The Art of Medicine

By Luke Jackson August 28, 2022

  Science versus the arts. Right brain versus the left brain. These two facets, faculties or skillsets always seem to be duking it out in a never-ending boxing match for superiority. This duel...

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Social Determinants of Health and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in Marginalized Groups

By Haley Utendorfer and Abhilasha Khatri December 8, 2021

  As of Dec. 2, 5,224,655 worldwide have died from COVID-19, and the numbers only continue to rise. At first, vaccines seemed to be a light at the end of the tunnel. However, doses of Pfizer,...

The Eccles Institute of Human Genetics located at the University of Utah Campus in Salt Lake City, on Friday, November 5, 2021 (Photo by Brooklyn Critchley | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

2007 Nobel Prize Recipient Mario Capecchi on 2021 Award in Same Field

By Nathan Levinzon, News Writer November 17, 2021

  Each year thousands of professors, members of national committees, Nobel laureates, and parliamentary assemblies lobby their candidates to the Nobel committee for the Nobel Prize. The results...

University of Utah Hospital main entrance in Salt Lake City on June 23, 2021.

COVID-19 Alters Pre-Med Experience, Increases Stress

By Nathan Levinzon, News Writer October 22, 2021

  For many undergraduate students, getting a bachelor’s degree means being able to apply to professional schools, including medical school. According to the Association of American Medical Colleges,...

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Piano Prodigy and Philanthropist Donna Stoering Moves to Salt Lake City

By Heather Graham, Assistant Copy Chief, Arts Writer July 27, 2021

  For Donna Stoering, music has always been part of the rhythm of her soul. Her impressive resume boasts a variety of accomplishments in music, from teaching professionally at ten years old,...

A sign above the entrance to the University of Utah Hospital on the University of Utah Medical Campus, Salt Lake City, UT on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019.

Socially Distant Doctors: Virtual Healthcare’s New Prominence

By Alexis Perno, News Writer October 21, 2020

  From viewing patients to basic training to connecting physicians remotely, Intermountain pediatric and telehealth outreach director Howard Kadish said there’s a lot packaged into telehealth,...

A sign above the entrance to the University of Utah Hospital on the University of Utah Medical Campus, Salt Lake City, UT on Friday, Sept. 13, 2019.

Letter: Becoming a Physician Assistant During a Pandemic

  Healthcare has an entirely different meaning this year. It is needless to say that this pandemic has changed the lives of many people in countless ways. Those working on the frontlines risking...

Improving womens health care is essential to achieving gender equality. (Photo by Camille Rousculp | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Poma: Achieving Gender Equality in Utah Will Require Better Attention to Women’s Health

By Sasha Poma, Assistant Opinion Editor September 8, 2020

  For the third year in a row, Utah recently ranked the worst state in the nation for women’s equality. And, sadly, most people weren’t surprised. While the announcement probably calls the...

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Gholami: COVID-19 Was Not the Beginning nor the End of Medical Racism

By Samira Gholami, Opinion Writer August 29, 2020

  The life-saving medical therapies at the forefront of diagnosis and treatment of the novel Coronavirus have a history of racial bias. Discriminatory design and ideologies are embedded in the...

Flu Vaccination on campus. 
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Alvarado: The Anti-Vaxx Movement Puts Us in the Middle Ages

By Andrea Alvarado March 9, 2019

  In 1998, Andrew Wakefield published an article, unaware of the serious repercussions his work would have in public health around the world. His study claimed to have found a correlation between...