Another study in a sea of papers documenting the harmful effects of air pollution on health has been released by University of Utah Health researchers. This time, the study found prenatal exposure to ozone pollution may be causing harm to the cognitive development of unborn children. The ...
When Luke McMillan was just a year old, his mother noticed he started to have trouble eating, so she took him to the doctor. At the time, nobody knew the little boy had swallowed a button battery designed to go inside a toy. “My husband, KC, and I weren’t home at the time and Luke had ...
Every four minutes, someone in the world dies from drug or alcohol addiction, and the trend doesn’t seem to be slowing down. In fact, drinking has been on the rise, particularly among women, since the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a recent study led by the University of Pittsburgh. “We ...
Utahns with heart disease are especially vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution, a new study has found. Heart researchers at Intermountain Health found that people with heart disease, especially those with heart failure, had higher inflammation biomarkers in their blood during short-term ...
The continued shortage of intravenous, or IV, saline fluids has forced many hospitals across the nation and in Utah to put off some nonurgent and elective surgeries. The shortage is caused by Hurricane Helene’s damage to Baxter Medical’s North Cove plant, which is close to Ashville, North ...
OGDEN — While working on her clinical hours at the Northern Navajo Medical Center in Shiprock, New Mexico, Kendra Ellison noticed a disturbing trend. More and more elderly patients in the Navajo population were becoming scared, frustrated and withdrawn because of the language barrier between ...
