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Chronic Kidney Disease and Improving Diagnoses: ARUP Teams Up to Identify Patients at Risk

Thirty million people have chronic kidney disease (CKD), but only 3.6 million know they’ve got the disease. With few early symptoms, people may not realize they have the disease until their kidney function is significantly depleted. That can be fatal without dialysis or a kidney transplant.

One in three American adults is at risk for chronic kidney disease as a result of hypertension or diabetes. CKD

Seemingly Small IT Improvements Notably Increase Clients’ Awareness of Test Changes

Prenatal Screening and NIPT: Ratcheting Up the Sensitivity

The mother decided—against her earlier leaning—to have a non-invasive prenatal test (NIPT) for the top three most common genetic abnormalities: Down syndrome (also called trisomy 21), trisomy 18, and trisomy 13. NIPT tests DNA in maternal blood to screen for those three anomalies.

Lab Jobs and Histotechnology: How Switching Careers Helped One Technologist

She didn’t feel math-y to start. Meghan Maughan, now an ARUP histotechnologist, liked science in high school and college, but felt her math skills held her back from science careers.

Stronger, Faster, Smarter: ARUP’s New NGS Pipeline and Analytical Platform

Non-Opioid Pain Management: Searching for Natural Compounds to Replace Opioids (Q&A)

The Department of Defense awarded a $10 million grant to be paid over four years to a multi-disciplinary team, some of whom worked on a University of Utah Health study published in February 2017. ARUP is a partner to the University of Utah, and has an extensive pain management panel. Photo by My Huynh.