For the first time in four decades, gay and bisexual men will be allowed to donate blood in Utah. During a press conference Wednesday afternoon, ARUP Blood Services made the announcement, making it the first donor center in the state to accept donations from the gay community. In May, the ...
Jessica Leon said even though she’s never met her hero, he will live with her for the rest of her life. The 35-year-old Syracuse resident received a new heart on April 28 after waiting 81 days for a match. Leon had a condition called hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, which affects the left ...
NEW YORK (AP) — The In-N-Out burger chain will bar employees in five states from wearing masks unless they have a doctor's note, according to internal company emails leaked on social media. In the memo announcing new guidelines for Arizona, Colorado, Nevada, Texas and Utah workers, the fast ...
During its first year in operation, the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline received nearly 87,000 calls from Utahns desperate for help. “Our goal is to answer those calls within 120 seconds or less, and if they go past that, the calls are routed to the national backup center,” said Rachel ...
OGDEN - Dr. Jeffrey Walker doesn’t seek out his patients. They show up unannounced — with the worst imaginable injuries. “This job can be hours of boredom followed by hours of sheer terror,” Walker said. “You don't try to find people to come to your practice, but when your pager goes ...
OGDEN – Supporters filled the waiting room at the new Planned Parenthood clinic in Washington Terrace on Wednesday to hail the organization’s long-term efforts to preserve access to reproductive health care. Kathryn Boyd, Planned Parenthood Association of Utah’s new president, described ...
OGDEN — So far, Sunday Hansen hasn’t had to perform CPR on any of the kids she babysits. But if something ever goes wrong, she’s trained to jump in and administer the lifesaving skill. The 11 year-old Mountain Green resident recently took a babysitting course at McKay-Dee Hospital ...
Intermountain Health is participating in a national effort to use artificial intelligence and machine learning to develop better ways of treating three of the most common conditions that land people in the intensive care unit. Pneumonia, sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome, also ...
Utah youth have some of the lowest rates of obesity in the country. According to data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the 2023 Kids Count data book from 2020-2021, one-third of kids aged 10 to 17 across the country are overweight or obese. The highest rates come from Kentucky, ...
Registered pharmacists in Utah are now allowed to prescribe and dispense basic hormonal contraceptives directly to adult women, thanks to a change in state law. The changes include hormonal birth control women can administer to themselves at home, such as birth control pills, patches or ...
