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Ogden family coping with young son’s diagnosis of rare genetic disease

OGDEN — Until very recently, 7-year-old Davian Navarro was enjoying a relatively normal childhood. The Ogden boy loves to go to school, play with his friends and skateboard, according to his mother, Jessica Gillard. He also loves Halloween and has designs on dressing up as both Spider-Man ...

Utah students collaborate at Hope Squad suicide prevention training

The stated purpose of the Hope Squad suicide prevention program is to foster a peer-to-peer approach that empowers its student members to “intentionally reach out to peers and become instruments of change" across schools nationwide. And what better way to reach that objective than bringing ...

Utah sites to offer safe disposal of unused prescription meds

MountainStar Healthcare and local law enforcement agencies are holding the annual Crush the Crisis event on Saturday — coinciding with National Prescription Drug Take Back Day — with the goal of encouraging as many people as possible to take their leftover or expired prescription ...

Traveling labyrinth at MountainStar sites offers path to inner peace

There’s no right or wrong way to walk a labyrinth, but one thing is certain: Doing so can help strengthen your physical and spiritual well-being. This week is National Spiritual Care Week, and MountainStar Healthcare hospitals across the state have been hosting in a traveling labyrinth to ...

OCD in the spotlight during October awareness period

If you pay close attention to the tidiness and order of your home, and you tell yourself, “Oh, I’m so OCD,” that’s not necessarily true obsessive-compulsive disorder. Clinical OCD is a complex, debilitating mental health condition that overwhelms the lives of sufferers, affecting their ...