women's health

A growing chorus of theologians, philosophers and bioethicists from all backgrounds is calling for more thoughtful discourse surrounding cosmetic procedures and treatments. In conservative Utah, cosmetic work is pretty common.

Sadie Nielsen participó en un estudio del Departamento de Salud y Servicios Humanos de Utah que analizó experiencias traumáticas de parto y qué tipo de atención posparto podría ayudar.

Sadie Nielsen participated in a Utah Department of Health and Human Services study that looked at traumatic childbirth experiences and what postpartum care could help.

Some lawmakers in our region are arguing abortion bans help keep a population young and growing. Others say they lead to more people leaving the state.

Republican Rep. Nicholeen Peck finds it hard to believe Medicaid isn't being used to cover abortion in some way, so she’s proposed a bill to make clinics that offer the procedure ineligible for Medicaid.

Utah has more Google searches for “breast augmentation” and “boob job” than anywhere else in the country. An annual event at Utah Valley University aims to combat societal messages that make women and girls feel bad about their bodies.

A new study shows religious institutions with ingrained or systemic gender inequality hurt women’s health. But other research finds religious attendance improves health, including The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. How do we reconcile the two?

Ohana Beginnings es una organización sin fines de lucro con sede en Utah que apoya a madres jóvenes y solteras, con énfasis en ayudarlas a ser autosuficientes mediante la educación.

Una nueva investigación del Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute muestra que siete condados de Utah no tienen un hospital con servicios de parto. Los recortes a Medicaid amenazan más zonas rurales, lo que podría afectar la salud de madres e infantes.

Ohana Beginnings is a Utah-based nonprofit that helps young, single mothers, with an emphasis on helping them become self-sufficient through education.

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.”

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.