Trevor Hunnicutt, Reuters | Posted March 18 - 10:22 a.m.
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President Joe Biden will issue an executive order on Monday expanding U.S. government research on women's health, while spending $200 million next year to better understand issues including sexual and reproductive conditions.
Collin Leonard, KSL.com | Posted March 18 - 8:04 a.m.
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Wastewater lagoons near Midway have been worse in recent years, residents say, prompting a first-of-its-kind health department study as the district works to protect itself from litigation.
Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, CNN | Posted March 17 - 6:24 p.m.
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Caffeine intoxication happens when people ingest an excessive amount of caffeine. The Food and Drug Administration defines this limit as anything more than 400 milligrams of caffeine daily for healthy adults.
Arianne Brown for KSL.com | Posted March 17 - 7:23 a.m.
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As Tanner Martin entered his front room on Feb. 16, there stood four of his UVU professors with confetti in hand and his diploma. Martin has stage 4 colon cancer, and has been given just months to live.
Megan Janetsky, Associated Press | Posted March 16 - 9:37 p.m.
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Those walking through the milling streets of downtown Mexico City were greeted with a strange and sleepy sight. Touting bright blue yoga mats, sleeping masks and travel pillows, hundreds of Mexicans laid sprawled out on the ground at the base of the city's iconic Monument to the Revolution to take a nap.
Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | Posted March 16 - 7:40 p.m.
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A new analysis of dozens of recent studies, including health outcomes for more than 10 million people, says consuming lots of ultra-processed food could lead to dozens of health problems — from obesity and heart disease to cancer, diabetes and even early death.
Will Dunham, Reuters | Posted March 15 - 7:57 p.m.
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Research in the expanding field of space medicine has identified many ways in which a microgravity environment and other factors can meddle with the human body during space missions.
Bridger Beal-Cvetko, KSL.com | Posted March 15 - 1:28 p.m.
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Utah lawmakers passed a bill with the goal of protecting patients after a dementia patient was assaulted in a care facility. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox signed the bill into law Thursday.
Lois M. Collins, Deseret News | Posted March 14 - 10:19 p.m.
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Paul Alexander, 78, who relied for decades on an iron lung to breathe after being paralyzed by polio when he was just 6 in 1952, died Monday in Dallas.
Emma Pitts, Deseret News | Posted March 12 - 7:43 a.m.
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As many as 70% of American adults are taking at least one prescription drug a day, a 14% increase from 2019, according to a new report from Help Advisor.
Patrick Wingrove and Sriparna Roy, Reuters | Posted March 11 - 9:44 p.m.
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The Food and Drug Administration approved Novo Nordisk's weight-loss drug Wegovy on Friday for lowering the risk of stroke and heart attack in overweight or obese adults who do not have diabetes.