Intermountain Health has a new Remote Operations Center that tracks and monitors energy use at 18 of its facilities in Utah and Idaho. The system uses billions of data points that keep track of energy use and spots inefficiencies in systems that work poorly. One example provided by the company ...
For decades, downwinders have criticized the Radiation Compensation Exposure Act, or RECA, for being too narrow. Designed to compensate people exposed to and sickened by nuclear weapons development, activists say RECA has glaring cracks — for starters, it only covered 10 counties in Utah ...
During the past year, approximately 1 in 7 children in the United States experienced child abuse or neglect, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome also reported inconsolable crying to be the No. 1 trigger for shaken baby ...
Ah, spring. A time of reawakening and rebirth. The sun stays out longer, the trees and flowers start to bloom, and those outside projects you’ve been looking forward to get you out into the elements after a long, cold winter. Spring also brings pollen swirling through the air, and for people ...
OGDEN — Practicing CPR on mannequins is one thing. Having to perform it on your friend and classmate is quite another. But that’s exactly what happened last November when Weber State University students Allie Green and Audrey Young took a break from a school project to meet for lunch at a ...
Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital and Ogden Regional Medical Center have been named among the top 50 cardiovascular hospitals in America for 2024. Fortune Magazine and Pinc AI named the top 50 last week. Intermountain Medical Center in Murray also was on the list. Fortune Magazine and Pinc AI ...
SALT LAKE CITY — As rising health care costs further pinch Utah families, a nonprofit group announced Thursday the first statewide study of ways to control factors driving those increases. Jaime Wissler, executive director of One Utah Health Collaborative, said in an interview that insurance ...
Utah has one of the highest incidence rates of multiple sclerosis in the nation, and Intermountain Health physicians are trying to figure out why that’s the case. The neurological autoimmune disease affects more than 1 million Americans and is three times more likely to strike women, ...
OGDEN — Weber State University's Department of Exercise & Nutrition Sciences has begun working with the school's rising esports program to study the effects on the body of playing video games. The project, launched by Bryan Dowdell, assistant professor of exercise and sport science ...
Is there a single lever Congress can pull to stifle the fentanyl-fueled opioid crisis in the U.S.? That was the theme of Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney’s line of questioning on Wednesday during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee meeting. The short answer is ...
