OGDEN — Thousands of behavioral health patients in Northern Utah may soon find their Medicaid benefits at risk. During the COVID-19 pandemic, Medicaid automatically renewed coverage for 270,000 Utahns who receive mental and substance use treatment, but now that the crisis has ceased, those ...
A potentially deadly fungal infection is sweeping across the nation right now and it’s resistant to many of the drugs used to treat it. Candida auris, or C. auris, is a type of yeast infection that can cause severe illness or death in immunocompromised people. It also poses a serious threat ...
Over 50% of calls made to the Utah Poison Control Center each year involve children under 5 years old. Still, poisonings can happen to anyone at any age. Last year, the UPCC managed over 40,000 poisoning cases across the state, many of them involving exposure to common over-the-counter pain ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Abortion clinics in Utah could be banned from operating under a law signed by the state's Republican governor, setting off a rush of confusion among clinics, hospitals and prospective patients in the deeply conservative state. Administrators from hospitals and clinics ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Food insecurity isn’t just a matter of hunger pangs. Going without proper nutrition can cause all kinds of illnesses and even exacerbate chronic ones. On Friday, Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital unveiled a brand-new food pantry where children and their families ...
In 2022, the Utah Legislature voted unanimously to pass a bill adjusting who is allowed to provide drugs and operate as a licensed dispensing practice. Jaren Blake, operator of the solo practice Blake Family Medicine in Provo, received the first license to provide medications to patients ...
In a first for Utah, physicians at Intermountain Health employed a procedure typically used to treat cancer patients to cure a life-threatening, irregular heartbeat in a Tooele resident. Stereotactic radiotherapy is used to treat refractory ventricular tachycardia when all other treatment ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A new nationwide study led in part by University of Utah scientists found about 26% of parents misrepresented their child’s COVID-19 status in one way or another. According to the study, about 60% of parents said they deceived others about their child’s vaccination ...
A 12-foot-tall, 113 pound inflatable colon will be making its way through Intermountain Health hospitals throughout March in an effort to bring awareness of colon cancer and the importance of potentially life-saving screenings. The community colorectal cancer awareness campaign, “Let’s ...
The feeling of racial battle fatigue is not an isolated experience, but rather a build up of people having to deal with racial hate and hostility, whether it is violent or subtle. “It is a systemic problem that will require the efforts of everyone to break the ties that bind us as a country ...
