When your loved one receives a dementia diagnosis, a decline in cognition and memory is the main symptom you expect to see. But what you may not expect are behavioral symptoms like aggression, paranoia and wandering or the emotional toll these all take. You may find yourself stepping into an ...
Utah leads the nation when it comes to administering the fastest care to people suffering from stroke. According to the American Heart Association’s “Get With The Guidelines” database, 94.5% of patients at Intermountain Health stroke centers receive life-saving clot-busting medication ...
Though Ashton Davis learns a lot from lectures, studying and practicing in labs, the future optometric physician prefers real-world educational experiences like he recently had at Rocky Mountain University of Health Professions (RMU). Davis was among a half-dozen students who recently helped ...
A new salmonella outbreak linked to backyard poultry has sickened at least seven people in six states, health officials said Monday. Two cases were identified in Missouri, and one each in Utah, Florida, Illinois, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...
KAYSVILLE — The Utah Department of Health and Human Services, or DHHS, is seeking input from seniors statewide on what their concerns are and what might be done to alleviate them. On Thursday, DHHS officials arrived at the Central Davis Senior Activity Center in Kaysville, where dozens of ...
Utah is set to become the first state in the nation to ban fluoride in drinking water, with a new law taking effect later this week, on Wednesday. That day, the fluoride taps will turn off, if they haven’t already. While Davis and Salt Lake counties, and Brigham City, are the only ...
