Citing their highly addictive properties and strong withdrawal issues, Utah lawmakers will consider banning a little-regulated substance sold in gas stations and vape shops — kratom. Kratom is a tree native to Southeast Asia with leaves that are often used to self-treat conditions like ...
DAVIS COUNTY — Officials in Davis County are warning people in Davis County and Ogden that they may have had contact with a measles patient while they were infectious. Monday afternoon, the Davis County Health Department, or DCHD, announced in a press release that it had received a report of ...
Salt Lake County says its first confirmed case of measles this year is worrying because it suggests the virus is spreading in the community. “This case is especially concerning because the source of the patient’s infection is unknown,” said Dorothy Adams, executive director of the Salt ...
More than 1 in 10 Utahns relies on the Affordable Care Act marketplace for health coverage. For many of them, the cost will go up next year if Congress doesn’t extend particular tax credits. On Wednesday, a Democrat in the Utah Legislature and two in Congress urged Republicans in ...
OGDEN — A new era is getting underway for the Seager Memorial Clinic. On Wednesday — after nearly four decades of operating in around 750-square-feet of the Ogden Rescue Mission's basement — the ribbon was cut on the clinic's Karl & Erika Michel Center on 24th Street. Jerika ...
OGDEN — For years, nephrology services have been inconsistent and few and far between for those who have needed them in the Ogden area. That changed this summer with the opening of a new Intermountain Health kidney clinic at McKay-Dee Hospital. While the clinic first opened in the early ...
