A federal judge in Utah has temporarily blocked social media access laws that leaders said were meant to protect the mental health and personal privacy of children, saying they are unconstitutional. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Shelby on Tuesday issued the preliminary injunction against ...
The following story was reported by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project in partnership with Utah News Dispatch. When social worker Jules Martinez met one teen client, it seemed like the boy had given up: he’d dropped out of school, started selling drugs and stopped speaking with ...
WEBER COUNTY — As the summer mosquito season drags on, West Nile virus continues to be detected in counties across the Beehive State. So far in 2024, the virus has been found in mosquito pools in Weber, Davis, Box Elder, Cache, Salt Lake, Utah, Uintah, Tooele and Millard counties. "It's ...
In 2023, 216 people died while homeless in Utah. Out of 21,816 deaths reported in the state that year, people experiencing homelessness in Utah had 10 times the rate of death compared to the rest of Utah’s population. And, on average, Utah’s homeless died 16 years younger. Those are some ...
Feeling stressed out? There’s good news — and bad. Not all stress is bad. In fact, according to Dr. Jake Veigel, a sports medicine physician at Intermountain Health, if managed properly, it can give motivation to get things done. Eustress, also known as good stress, helps people accomplish ...
Influenza sickens millions of people each year, hospitalizing hundreds of thousands and killing tens of thousands, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Getting vaccinated not only reduces the risk of influenza, it also has been shown to lessen potentially serious ...
