During his visit, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he plans to tell the CDC to stop recommending water fluoridation in communities nationwide.

While not all Utah cities and municipalities fluoridate their water, the ones that do will no longer be allowed to by law starting May 7.

Utah lawmakers who pushed for a ban said putting fluoride in water was too expensive. For public health reasons, fluoride is added to water to strengthen teeth and reduce cavities.

Utah has a combined $56 million in settlement funds that counties are deciding how to spend. Critics question if police gear and wages are the best use of the money — saying treatment and recovery have historically been underfunded.

In 2022, Love was diagnosed with an aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma. She said her doctors estimated she had only 10-15 months to live, but she surpassed that.

Initial numbers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention find a small bump of 22,250 births over 2023's tally. Vermont had the lowest birth rate that year while Utah had the highest.

After less than two years at the helm, Boyd’s last day will be March 28." The Planned Parenthood Association of Utah will launch a national search for a new leader “at this time of great adversity.”

Ripple effects of the Trump administration's crackdown on U.S. medical research promise to reach every corner of America. Delays in funding from the National Institutes of Health and massive planned cuts to that money, if they survive a court fight, would cost jobs.

The lawsuit had argued that emergency-room doctors treating pregnant women had to provide terminations if needed to save their lives or to avoid serious health consequences in Idaho, which has one of the country’s strictest abortion bans.

Rep. Matt MacPherson’s bill that sought to get Utah out of a lawsuit while at the same time increasing regulations, fines and fees on tobacco shops faced unexpected substitutions and opposition on the House floor.

If flavored vapes are here to stay, Republican Rep. Matt MacPherson argues stricter enforcement and higher taxes on the products in Utah are key.

A review by The Utah Investigative Journalism Project of account ledgers, budget documents, funding proposals and other public records found that a majority of counties in the state have spent little to none of the opioid funding they’ve received.