For far too long, oral health has been seen as a status symbol in this country. Having a healthy smile is considered a luxury, not a necessity.

Dr. Monica Bertagnolli, a 1985 graduate of the Spencer Fox Eccles School of Medicine at the University of Utah, was confirmed Tuesday by the U.S. Senate as the 16th Director of the National Institutes of Health

Time magazine’s annual list of the best inventions features 200 extraordinary innovations with the capacity to change people’s lives. To compile the list, Time’s editors solicit nominations and accept applications describing groundbreaking work in key fields—such as AI, green energy and sustainability—evaluating each contender on a number of factors, including originality, efficacy, ambition and impact. This year, Time has selected the Utah Bionic Leg as one of the best inventions of 2023, naming it in its “Experimental” category.  With its suite of motors, sensors, and controllers, the robotic prosthesis can better replicate the biomechanics of the human knee, ankle and toe, giving it the potential…

For advanced cancer surgeon Laura Lambert, hope is the best medicine.

For a minute, the crackling sounded like the Zoom call was crashing. Turns out, it was just a University of Utah physical therapy graduate student’s potato chip bag rustling in a classroom on Utah Tech University’s campus in Southern Utah. The fiber optics for the virtual lectures are that good.

For the tenth year in a row, research funding hit another landmark year, reaching $768 million in fiscal year 2023.