Fourth Street Clinic has been recognized as the first primary care clinic in Salt Lake, Tooele and Summit counties to meet benchmarks that improve patient health and reduce unnecessary costs under... Read more »

Specialists from the Intermountain Medical Center Stroke Program will answer questions about strokes during the Deseret News/Intermountain Healthcare Hotline Saturday from 10 a.m. to noon. Read more »

A California law that created an agency to oversee national health care reforms granted it broad authority to conceal spending on the contractors that will perform most of its functions,... Read more »

Gov. Steve Beshear says Kentucky's Medicaid program will expand to cover hundreds of thousands of additional people. Read more »

What was supposed to be a day of joy turned into a day of grieving for a Utah County family. Katrina Lawrence, the mother of five, died during childbirth Monday. Read more »

Weight-loss surgery such as the type that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie underwent may not just improve people's waistlines, but their health. Read more »

Multiple groups came together Tuesday outside Syracuse Arts Academy to detail their opposition to the West Davis highway contemplated by the Utah Department of Transportation. They said the... Read more »

Sexual assaults in the military are a growing epidemic across the services and thousands of victims are still unwilling to come forward despite a slew of new oversight and assistance programs,... Read more »

More than 1 million babies die the day they are born every year, and the 14 countries with the highest rates of first-day deaths are all in Africa, according to a new report released Tuesday. Read more »

During a human trafficking forum on Wednesday, May 1, Salt Lake native Elizabeth Smart spoke candidly about her nine months in captivity after being kidnapped in 2002 and the importance of... Read more »

In a public-private partnership intended to help victims of domestic violence, a community resource center was launched Monday at West Jordan City Hall. The center is a project of South Valley... Read more »

Huntsman Cancer Institute employees dedicate themselves daily to helping their patients, but Monday was a day set aside as a spiritual refuge for their healing hands to be recognized. It also... Read more »

Scientists are treating obesity in mice with fecal transplants. The transfer of stool, meaning billions of bacteria, from one animal to another is not news. Humans have undergone them. It is losing... Read more »

This dish is hearty and full of Mexican flavor but without the traditional ingredients. This healthy version of enchiladas is sure to please. Read more »

Provo’s long-awaited recreation center is now hosting open tours of its new pools, basketball courts, water slides, supervised child play areas, running track and weightlifting facilities. An... Read more »

California and federal public health officials say valley fever, a potentially lethal but often misdiagnosed disease infecting more and more people around the nation, has been on the rise as... Read more »

A BYU research group has released a study that tracked Adderall abuse using Twitter. In addition to refining their tracking programs, the computational health science group hopes to develop... Read more »

Double-amputee Jason Koger used to fly hundreds of miles to visit a clinician when he wanted to adjust the grips on his bionic hands. Read more »

Infant mortality has declined in the U.S., according to a new CDC report, but America still has one of the highest infant mortality rates for an industrialized nation Read more »

Battling Tourette's syndrome: "The urge doesn't go away. If you think about it like a sneeze, it kind of always feels like a sneeze on the brink." Read more »

Health care policy wonks were sent into a bit of a dither this week when the New England Journal of Medicine published a study finding that Medicaid does not improve physical health outcomes. Read more »

Thousands of people with serious medical problems are in danger of losing coverage under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul because of cost overruns, state officials say. Read more »

President Barack Obama said Thursday he was comfortable with his administration's decision to allow over-the-counter purchases of a morning-after pill for anyone 15 and older. Read more »

Gov. Gary Herbert declared May "Clean Air Month" on Thursday and pointed to individual steps like upgrading from a two-cycle to a four-cycle lawnmower or buying low fume or "VOC" paint that will... Read more »