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Physicians, hospitals and Idaho’s top medical associations are sounding the alarm on the state’s OBGYN crisis, saying the state’s strict abortion bans are causing confusion among healthcare professionals and leading to staff shortages.
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The cows started experiencing symptoms shortly after the farm received a shipment of cattle from an operation in Texas, where animals later tested positive.
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Several national companies are condemning Idaho’s restrictions on healthcare choices, saying the state’s laws are bad for both women and the bottom line.
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Hospitals throughout Wyoming will receive 143 ultrasound imaging devices. Plus the University of Wyoming (UW) will provide training opportunities so physicians can use the devices to the best of their ability.
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The National Firefighter Registry is perhaps the most ambitious effort to better understand the link between firefighting and cancer.
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Wellspring Health Access in Casper has faced arson, a local backlash, and near-constant protest since it opened nearly a year ago. Now, a bill that passed the Legislature aims to place regulations on the only remaining clinic that provides procedural abortions in the state.
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Wyoming’s 988 suicide lifeline funding bill is dead, but there’s still a chance that it could get the funding advocates are hoping for before the session ends.
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The American Lung Association released its State of Tobacco Control report, which grades how states have been doing in terms of limiting access to tobacco and improving access to programs that help people stop smoking. Almost all Mountain West states got an F for not spending enough to stop tobacco use, though some states got high marks for their smoking cessation programs.
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Prescribed fires can be an effective way to reduce the risk of severe wildfires. But they of course also give off smoke, and researchers are trying to better understand that public health tradeoff. A new paper finds that prescribed fire can reduce overall smoke exposure, but that those benefits can diminish as the level of prescribed fire increases.
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New data shows respiratory illness is elevated or increasing across most of the United States, including the Mountain West region.