Your home could be making you sick. At least 1 in 3 homes have elevated levels of radon, an odorless and colorless gas that can accumulate in the ground near homes. Enough of it inside a home could cause inhabitants to develop lung cancer. In fact, radon is the second-leading cause of lung ...
OGDEN — Money from a national opioid addiction lawsuit settlement will be used to expand help for Weber County Jail inmates withdrawing from substance use disorder. Last week, Weber Human Services received a $40,000 check from the Weber County Commission, which is the gatekeeper for ...
Intermountain Health has effectively treated 1,000 patients in the comfort of their home rather than keeping them admitted to the hospital, which can save in medical costs. The Hospital-Level Care at Home program, which began in 2020, is available to patients at 16 Intermountain hospitals from ...
More people suffer from heart attacks during the holiday season than any other time of the year. Dr. Skyler Nguyen, a family practice physician for Optum Utah, said research shows more cardiac deaths occur on Christmas than any other day of the year, followed by the day after Christmas and ...
During the pandemic, it was difficult for new moms to get training on how to breastfeed their babies, so Intermountain Health came up with an alternative option — outpatient video visits. The visits were well received, so last month, Intermountain Health developed a program called Connect ...
Everyone knows winter brings with it an increase in illnesses, but predicting the severity of the season can be tricky. “It’s never easy to predict, but based on what we’ve seen in the last year or two, which was very different from what we typically see, we expect we’ll have a fairly ...
OGDEN — Weber State University began the year with a new program and will end the year with a new tradition. On Thursday, WSU will have its inaugural white coat ceremony to celebrate the university's first cohort of 20 physician assistant students. The ceremony — hosted by the Department ...
OGDEN — When you hear the word chandelier, you probably wouldn’t picture over 12,000 empty pill bottles hanging from the ceiling. But at Intermountain McKay-Dee Hospital, that’s exactly what you’ll see when you walk through the doors of the main lobby. The empty pill bottles ...
LAYTON — If it were up to statistics, Carla Miner probably shouldn’t be alive today. But because of early detection, the 52-year-old has survived the odds of pancreatic cancer. The disease is one of the few cancers that typically advances to an incurable stage by the time it’s ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Transgender teenagers who are challenging a Utah law banning trans girls from playing on girls' sports teams can keep portions of their mental health records confidential after a state judge ruled Thursday that some details are irrelevant to the case. Two student-athletes ...
