Utah’s current 70-cents-per-pack cigarette tax should be increased by more than 70 percent, with the $25 million or so increase in funds going to various health-improvement programs, including cancer screening and smoking cessation programs, a Utah legislator says.
Rep. Paul Ray, R-Clearfield, introduced a bill Wednesday [...]
EPHRAIM Snow College officials are saying with near certainty that no active cases of tuberculosis will be found on the school’s campus, following the release of TB test results.
On Wednesday, college spokesman Greg Dart said that three individuals who had been under suspicion of [...]
Mother Nature is dumping mountains of snow on the roads and trails of Utah, and the temperature is flirting with zero, but athletes of all sorts aren’t waiting for spring to begin their training or even competition.
For many there is no offseason, only a [...]
The Federal Communications Commission has given the University of Utah $9 million to expand the Utah Telehealth Network, which uses technology to connect doctors and patients in rural areas with medical specialists in the state’s urban hubs.
The existing network has more than 30 sites, including [...]
Mark the date: Efforts to reform Utah’s health-care system began today at 8 a.m., Jan. 30, 2008.
The complete overhaul of the state’s health-care service system would be a meridian in history as necessary to the well-being of the next generations of Utahns as learning how [...]
Claiming departmental conflicts of interest, a Utah legislator has introduced a bill that would shift all of the liquor control enforcement powers from the state liquor commission and place them in the Utah Attorney General’s Office.
If adopted, it would be a major change in how [...]
OMAHA, Neb. Doctors and nurses on the go often skip soap and water in favor of an alcohol-based hand gel, thinking the quick-acting goo will kill bacteria on their hands and curb the spread of infection.
It turns out that’s not enough.
In [...]
OREM When 10-year-old Brighton Thorn is asked what is unique about her, she has a ready response.
“I was the first baby born at Timpanogos Hospital,” she says. “I was on the news and in the newspaper.”
Both Thorn, wearing pink scrubs embroidered [...]
ATLANTA Cough and cold medicines send about 7,000 children to hospital emergency rooms each year, the U.S. government said Monday in its first national estimate of the problem.
About two-thirds of the cases were children who took the medicines unsupervised. However, about one-quarter involved cases [...]
Amelia Erickson is only 1, but she’s already involved in the search for a cure for type 1 diabetes. She drinks a special formula that has added either a plant-based omega-3 fatty acid or a placebo as part of a national study to see if it prevents at-risk [...]
