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Every month, the ARUP Wellness team presents health-based topics to support employees in their efforts to take care of themselves.

When Dr. Harry Hill learned that his patient had relatives with similar symptoms, he saw an opportunity to define her condition.

While recently touring Salt Lake City-based ARUP Laboratories, Utah Congressman Chris Stewart witnessed one of the country’s largest national reference laboratories in action.

Using whole exome sequencing, Rong Mao, MD, and Pinar Bayrak-Toydemir, MD, PhD, discovered a new genetic mutation on the PIEZ01 gene linked to hemolytic anemia with autosomal dominant inheritance.

A recent quality improvement project conducted at the University of Utah Medical Center (published in the Journal of Hospital Medicine) shows how to cut down on unnecessary laboratory tests.

Adverse drug reactions cause more than 700,000 ER visits each year, with some 120,000 patients needing to be hospitalized for further treatment, according to the CDC.

Gateway provides a centralized online location that allows clients to access all their tests, making it easier for clinicians, phlebotomists, and lab personnel to find the information they need.

ARUP’s Decision Support Team spent more than a year redesigning Consult, a laboratory testing reference tool, making it easier to navigate and use regardle

Chipotle is in the midst of a restaurant’s nightmare, as it contends with the consequences of three major foodborne outbreaks this past year involving the pathogens

In a medical laboratory, when specimens from different patients are prepared for analysis on a 96-well collection plate, it is critical that there is absolutely no cross-contamination.

“Organizations like ARUP Laboratories help us keep our lights on and our doors open,” said Nathan Meason of Best

For a patient battling lung cancer, the discomforts and risks of undergoing repeated biopsies, surgeries, and radiologic scans can now be replaced by a far less invasive method.