The number of people with chronic pain has increased substantially in recent years, and the reason isn’t completely clear. A report, issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Health Interview Survey, stated that 20.4% of adults in the United States in 2016 had ...
’Tis the season ... for influenza. The respiratory virus has started spreading in Utah and emergency departments are seeing an increase of patients throughout the state. “In the last few weeks, we have seen this progress to a rapid increase in the number of people who are hospitalized for ...
Scientific evidence suggests the proteins from our tears are capable of detecting a variety of ocular and systemic diseases. The issue is the two primary avenues of harvesting human tears, using a Schrimer strip or microcapillary tube, are often painful and intrusive. Brigham Young ...
University of Utah Health announced Friday the development of a promising new HIV drug. The drug, lenacapavir, has been named the 2024 breakthrough of the year by the scientific journal Science. Wesley Sundquist, Samuels professor and chair of biochemistry at the U of U, established the ...
Utahns with heart disease are especially vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution, a new study has found. Heart researchers at Intermountain Health found that people with heart disease, especially those with heart failure, had higher inflammation biomarkers in their blood during short-term ...
Think of a time that was especially stressful for your family, whether it was a health crisis, a financial stress, a divorce or something else. In that stressful situation, who responded with the care and support that you needed? Was it a church community, a doctor, a social worker, a ...
The continued shortage of intravenous, or IV, saline fluids has forced many hospitals across the nation and in Utah to put off some nonurgent and elective surgeries. The shortage is caused by Hurricane Helene’s damage to Baxter Medical’s North Cove plant, which is close to Ashville, North ...
Between 2018-2022, Utah occupational accidents claimed the lives of 257 Utahns and injured 161,400. Unfortunately, these types of injuries and death are commonplace in the state. In an effort to reduce those numbers, four Utah universities have formed a partnership with Rocky Mountain ...
In today’s world, there are plenty of reasons to worry about our family’s safety and security. However, we shouldn’t have to worry about having access to health care. Eighty-six percent of Utahns worry about affording health care. As one of the largest household expenditures, rising ...
According to the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, Utah emergency departments treated 276 patients for possible carbon monoxide poisoning in 2023. Across the country last year, the colorless, odorless, tasteless gas, sometimes referred to as “the silent killer,” caused more ...
