The number of young people having strokes has been increasing, and the trend is very concerning to health care workers. “In my experience, we have been treating more young adults with strokes in recent years,” said Dr. Tiffany Brown, stroke medical director at Intermountain McKay-Dee ...

History was made and milestones were marked in Utah County last year. While students at one local high school achieved what some deemed the impossible by persuading a major movie star to return to their campus, voters chose to split up the state's largest school district. Meanwhile, ...

Researchers at University of Utah Health will participate in a trial to see whether fentanyl or ketamine, administered by emergency medical service providers on the scene, is more successful in relieving pain in trauma patients before arriving at the hospital. The Prehospital Analgesia ...

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 ...