Over 50% of calls made to the Utah Poison Control Center each year involve children under 5 years old. Still, poisonings can happen to anyone at any age. Last year, the UPCC managed over 40,000 poisoning cases across the state, many of them involving exposure to common over-the-counter pain ...
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Abortion clinics in Utah could be banned from operating under a law signed by the state's Republican governor, setting off a rush of confusion among clinics, hospitals and prospective patients in the deeply conservative state. Administrators from hospitals and clinics ...
SALT LAKE CITY — Food insecurity isn’t just a matter of hunger pangs. Going without proper nutrition can cause all kinds of illnesses and even exacerbate chronic ones. On Friday, Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital unveiled a brand-new food pantry where children and their families ...
In 2022, the Utah Legislature voted unanimously to pass a bill adjusting who is allowed to provide drugs and operate as a licensed dispensing practice. Jaren Blake, operator of the solo practice Blake Family Medicine in Provo, received the first license to provide medications to patients ...
In a first for Utah, physicians at Intermountain Health employed a procedure typically used to treat cancer patients to cure a life-threatening, irregular heartbeat in a Tooele resident. Stereotactic radiotherapy is used to treat refractory ventricular tachycardia when all other treatment ...
SALT LAKE CITY — A new nationwide study led in part by University of Utah scientists found about 26% of parents misrepresented their child’s COVID-19 status in one way or another. According to the study, about 60% of parents said they deceived others about their child’s vaccination ...
