Health Care

This week we discuss how scientists manage mosquitos in the Great Salt Lake’s wetlands, Sen. John Curtis' suggestion for foreign aid, and the ban on transgender health care for youth.

In 2003, when Salt Lake City started adding fluoride to its water, Dr. Brent Larson had been practicing dentistry for 20 years. We asked him about the long-term effects of Utah's fluoride ban.

Nationally, more than 23% of women of childbearing age in rural areas are covered by Medicaid, compared to 20.5% of women in metro areas.

The decision hinges almost entirely on a constitutional right Republicans fought for in the wake of the passage of the federal Affordable Care Act, allowing residents to make their own healthcare decisions.

Northern India's Nazareth Hospital was a radical undertaking: it was run almost entirely by women, who insisted on giving the highest possible standard of care to all, regardless of caste or religion.

Time is critical for treating strokes. Intermountain Health hopes to reduce the time between stroke patients getting to the hospital and receiving care.

In a climate setback, Rocky Mountain Power now says it plans to burn coal in Utah until 2042, how health care shortages affect rural Utahns — and what the state is doing to help, and Salt Lake City says the owner must restore the partly demolished Fifth Ward Latter-day Saint meetinghouse.

In Tyranny of the Gene, James Tabery exposes the origin story of personalized medicine—essentially a marketing idea dreamed up by pharmaceutical executives—and traces its path from the Human Genome Project to the present. James Tabery joins us for this episode.

Eleven organizations have signed a letter to Idaho's congressional delegation urging them to support two measures that would increase access to drug treatment for people who are incarcerated or recently released.

Symptoms of asthma are similar to the more common condition of bronchitis, and taking medicines designed for asthma alone can be risky.