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 ...
’Tis the season ... for influenza. The respiratory virus has started spreading in Utah and emergency departments are seeing an increase of patients throughout the state. “In the last few weeks, we have seen this progress to a rapid increase in the number of people who are hospitalized for ...
Utah filed another lawsuit this week targeting companies it says are responsible for fueling the country’s opioid crisis. On Monday, the Utah Attorney General’s Office sued UnitedHealth Group, Express Scripts and their subsidiaries, which represent some of the country’s largest pharmacy ...
Over the past year, Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital has partnered with Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital in an effort to address the growing need for behavioral health services for children in the area. With this collaboration in place, more patients are able to stay closer to home ...
As of right now, heart failure is irreversible. The chronic condition, in which the heart doesn’t pump blood as well as it should, can be treated with medication and lifestyle changes that slow its progression, but there is no treatment to completely reverse the disease. The good news is ...
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 ...
