COVID-19

BYU human resources professor says employees can advocate for their mental health needs by letting management know when they are struggling and enlisting co-worker help.

New tribal President Buu Nygren, who was sworn in earlier in January, had pledged to roll back the requirement during his campaign.

Reading is a challenge for students across the country, especially after the pandemic.

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital has announced it will delay some pre-scheduled and non-emergency surgeries and procedures due to the RSV surge

Utah was the only state to not see a statistically significant decline in eighth grade math scores between 2022 and 2019. Utah’s fourth graders, on the other hand, did see test scores go down.

Some Utah schools used federal COVID-19 relief funds to hire more staff to help students recover from the pandemic, academically and emotionally. But schools will have to find long-term funding if they want to keep the extra staff after the one-time federal funding ends in a couple of years.

The practice is not a preventative vaccine replacement but “a complementary therapy” said one researcher.

For some parents the latest COVID vaccine for toddlers and babies allows them to breathe a sigh of relief.

State-run psychiatric hospitals have dozens of people coming in and then leaving days, weeks or months later. Surprisingly, most of these facilities in the Mountain West reported having far fewer COVID outbreaks and deaths than other group facilities.

The pandemic has exposed cracks in a support system where cultural stigmas already make it hard for mothers to get mental health care.

Gov. Cox addressed reporters while recovering from COVID-19. He said his symptoms were mostly mild and he didn’t take any antivirals to treat his infection.

Spending on dietary supplements has jumped dramatically during the pandemic.