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Heart researchers at Intermountain Medical Center are studying a novel cardiac support device that is wrapped around the heart via a minimally invasive procedure that appears to improve cardiovascular function and exercise capacity in patients with an advanced stage of heart failure called dilated cardiomyopathy.

Intermountain Medical Center is only the 12th center in the nation — and the only hospital in the Intermountain West — to offer the FDA-approved total artificial heart technology to heart failure patients who are waiting for a heart transplant.

Monday will be a busy and historic day as Intermountain Medical Center opens, and simultaneously, Cottonwood Hospital closes after 44 years of service to the community.

Rising majestically on a 100-acre campus in the heart of the Salt Lake Valley, the new Intermountain Medical Center campus represents the ultimate in modern healthcare: A brand-new facility that offers a careful and well-considered combination of high-touch and high-tech medical care.

In addition to the multi-disciplinary integrated outpatient clinic, the center will have a laboratory, pharmacy, and comprehensive surgery center with eight operating rooms, all with state-of-the-art diagnostic imaging capabilities, plus a major endoscopy center.

From the clothes we wear to our taste in movies, women are different from men.

The best cyclists in the nation, US Cycling's under 25 national team, were in Utah recently at TOSH.

Clinicians at the cancer center will collaborate with the Huntsman Cancer Institute on cancer education, research, and clinical cancer care through membership in the Huntsman-Intermountain Cancer Care Program.