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Telehealth care available in Weber School District

A student is at school and comes down with an earache. Does that warrant a call to the parents to check their child out and take them home? Not necessarily. With parental consent, if your child attends one of the 17 schools running a new program in the Weber School District, they can go to ...

U of U Health to participate in pain management trial

Researchers at University of Utah Health will participate in a trial to see whether fentanyl or ketamine, administered by emergency medical service providers on the scene, is more successful in relieving pain in trauma patients before arriving at the hospital. The Prehospital Analgesia ...

Ogden’s Seager Memorial Clinic receives $10,000 grant for new equipment

OGDEN — A local free health clinic is one of 10 in the country to receive a grant for $10,000. Seager Memorial Clinic received the grant money from Family Medicine Cares USA and will use the money to help purchase medical equipment to boost primary care from a patient’s diagnosis through ...

University of Utah Health announces development of breakthrough HIV drug

University of Utah Health announced Friday the development of a promising new HIV drug. The drug, lenacapavir, has been named the 2024 breakthrough of the year by the scientific journal Science. Wesley Sundquist, Samuels professor and chair of biochemistry at the U of U, established the ...

McKay-Dee Hospital celebrates heart procedure milestone

OGDEN - Kristi Gagnier said she went from near death one day to wanting to run a marathon the next. That’s how much better she felt after receiving a life-saving procedure at Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital last September to replace a damaged heart valve. “I would go to work, come ...