The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 51.6 million Americans suffer from some kind of chronic pain. Not only does chronic pain affect the body, it also affects mental health, causing anxiety and depression. In order to address the growing need for chronic pain treatment, ...
Federal health officials on Thursday called for more testing of employees on farms with bird flu after a new study showed that some dairy workers had signs of infection, even when they didn't report feeling sick. Farmworkers in close contact with infected animals should be tested and offered ...
Social media has helped people become more and more connected, so why do so many of us feel lonely? Loneliness is becoming an increasing issue, according to the American Medical Association, which states on its website that social isolation and loneliness is a significant public health concern ...
Intermountain Health researchers have received a grant to address the problem of antibiotic overuse and resistance in urgent care and outpatient clinics. The $356,000 grant from Merck will launch the Intermountain ReSCORE-UC project, which will be a two-year study to better understand how to ...
OGDEN — Until very recently, 7-year-old Davian Navarro was enjoying a relatively normal childhood. The Ogden boy loves to go to school, play with his friends and skateboard, according to his mother, Jessica Gillard. He also loves Halloween and has designs on dressing up as both Spider-Man ...
The stated purpose of the Hope Squad suicide prevention program is to foster a peer-to-peer approach that empowers its student members to “intentionally reach out to peers and become instruments of change" across schools nationwide. And what better way to reach that objective than bringing ...
