Intermountain Health

Intermountain Health rethinks bottom surgeries for adult transgender patients

Saige Miller

Intermountain Health’s gender care surgical director was already seeing patients when the provider decided to shelve a range of care known as “bottom surgeries.”

Colleen Kuhn, an adolescent psychologist specializing in gender, stands in front of their bookshelf in their office.

Health, Science & Environment

Utah’s gender-affirming care ban is impacting physicians, too

Saige Miller

Mental health providers and physicians who treat transgender youth are grappling with how to care for their patients in the wake of Utah’s gender-affirming care ban.

RSV presents with cold-like symptoms like a cough or runny nose and can be particularly severe for children under the age of 2 and people over 75. There is currently no RSV vaccine.

Health, Science & Environment

Utah is still experiencing an RSV and flu surge

Sean Higgins

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say respiratory diseases like RSV and the flu are much more prevalent right now than this time last year.

FILE - This 1981 photo provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows an electron micrograph of Respiratory Syncytial Virus, also known as RSV.

Health, Science & Environment

Utah’s RSV surge prompts worry of a ‘tripledemic’ this winter

Sean Higgins

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

In this photo made on Friday, Oct. 4, 2019, a woman uses her vaping device in Harmony, Pa.

Health, Science & Environment

E-cigarette use declining among young adults in Utah

Rob Winder

According to data from the Utah Department of Health and Human Services, 14.4% of Utahns aged 18-24 reported using e-cigarettes in 2021. That’s down from a peak of 18.5% in 2019.