Well-child visits and vaccinations are essential services and help make sure children are healthy and protected against vaccine-preventable diseases.
Pediatrician Dr. Lucy Ryan says children who do not receive their vaccines may be more likely to get diseases like measles and whooping cough. Routine vaccines help protect children and adolescents from serious diseases.
In recent months, families have been doing their part by staying at home as much as possible to help stop the spread of COVID-19, Ryan said. As communities open up, it’s crucial that your child goes in for their well-child visit.
These visits are essential for many reasons, including:
The UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program celebrates 35 years of giving the gift of life
The UTAH Cardiac Transplant Program celebrates 35 years of giving the gift of life.
Posted at 1:29 PM, Dec 31, 2020
and last updated 2020-12-31 15:29:28-05
1,549.
Thatâs the number of live-saving heart transplants the UTAH (Utah Affiliated Transplant Hospitals) Cardiac Transplant Program â a unique collaborative transplant group from Intermountain Healthcare (intermountain Medical Center and Intermountain Primary Childrenâs Hospital), University of Utah Health, and the George E. Wahlen Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center Medical Center in Salt Lake City â have performed in the past 35 years.
Patients, family members, clinicians, other caregivers, and community leaders are celebrating the 35
SALT LAKE CITY In many ways, 2020 was a year unlike any other.
If there was one headline in the news that could possibly sum it up, it was a CNN guest column with the headline 1918 + 1929 + 1968 = 2020, published back in the thick of protests over police brutality during a pandemic that also resulted in economic calamity.
Of course, 2020 didn t produce something as quite as deadly as the 1918 pandemic or as financially devastating as Black Thursday, or even as violent as 1968. Having those moments in one year, however, was unique. And 2020 produced hardships that those other years didn t, like some of the worst wildfires ever recorded.
But Janice’s life changed drastically when her kids were young, her hands started shaking in her forties.
“It got so bad that I couldn t eat with utensils. The food would just fly off the fork,” Pedersen said.
A team at the University of Utah is using focused ultrasound, a non-invasive approach to help patients like Janice. When fellow patient Mark Armstrong got the procedure, more than a thousand ultrasound beams are focused on the part of his brain that’s causing the tremor.
“The area we re targeting is a small part of the brain, the size of a pea. We do these procedures with the patient awake so we can get real-time feedback with how we re doing,” explained Dr. John Rolston, a neurosurgeon at the University of Utah Health.
Utahns 75 and older will be first in line for COVID-19 vaccine in next phase of rollout
Employment in food services and other industries “no longer being considered” as a factor.
(Leah Hogsten | The Salt Lake Tribune) I won t feel 100% safe until this all of this is over, said Riley Swain, 32, serving patrons at Harp and Hound, a pub in Ogden on Monday, but he said he s OK with letting those 75 and older get the coronavirus vaccine before he does. Gov. Gary Herbert s COVID-19 Unified Command on Monday, Dec. 28, 2020, adopted recommendations for Phase 2 of Utah s COVID-19 vaccine rollout, which includes removing food and restaurant workers from the list of people eligible to receive the vaccine early.