Syphilis is highly treatable in its primary and secondary stages, but congenital syphilis (babies born with the infection) is increasing in the U.S.
Dr. Gwen McMillin says ARUP's new therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) for imatinib has definite patient benefits.
It is sometimes mistaken for the summer flu—fever, chills, headache, body aches, swollen lymph nodes—but an accompanying rash may indicate a case of West Nile virus (WNV).
Sharing lab improvements honestly with other laboratories is part of ARUP culture and instrumental in improving healthcare, says David Layton, ARUP.
Some Utah schoolchildren can watch zebrafish develop with the help of volunteers from ARUP Laboratories through BioEYES, a national science education program offered through U of U Health.
HHT affects more than 1.4 million people worldwide. But specialists believe this disorder characterized by abnormal blood vessel development is highly underdiagnosed.
Given that ARUP's location is near hiking trails and a 100-acre botanical garden, it seems natural that we’d try to conserve and maintain environmental health as a company lifestyle.
Sometimes babies are already in the throes of withdrawal symptoms, but physicians can’t determine what drugs they are dealing with until test results are available<
Parasites are not just picked up in hot, distant countries. The technologists at ARUP Laboratories’ Parasitology and Fecal Testing Lab see creepers in samples all the time—because they are everywhere.
Many people think anatomic pathology is just "CSI," says Margaret Coppin, division manager in Technical Operations—Pathology.
Microbiology's delicate processes were difficult to automate—but that's changing, as ARUP's Bacteriology Laboratory starts and validates a new automation, WASPLab.
The plague provides a subject for Mark Fisher’s current National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant-funded project.