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Researchers at Intermountain Healthcare are at the forefront of a new, multi-center National Institutes of Health study that is being launched across the nation to test the safety and efficacy of therapeutics for COVID-19 patients with life-threatening cases of the virus, including those with acute respiratory failure.

Although it affects roughly 15 percent of the American population, those suffering from Irritable Bowel Syndrome often feel alone, frustrated and in pain — especially when the road to diagnosis feels long.

Although the care and compassion offered at Intermountain Healthcare facilities and other healthcare organizations across the country has remained at the highest level throughout the last year, one thing is noticeably missing: the volunteers.

Vaccines have been held up as one of the greatest achievements of modern medicine. Not only do they greatly reduce the suffering and death caused by illness, they reduce the cost of care significantly by preventing the need in the first place.

Saltzer Health, an Intermountain Healthcare company, has opened a new five-modality medical imaging center at the Ten Mile Road Medical Campus in Meridian, Idaho. The 8,700-square-foot medical imaging center offers convenient, low-cost, patient-centered care designed for comfort and safety.

Intermountain Healthcare is collaborating with a coalition of 60 of America's top hospitals and healthcare institutions nationwide campaign to encourage adults to get their COVID-19 vaccination.

Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital is planting more than 1,800 pinwheels in honor of children who have died as a result of child abuse nationwide, and experts remain concerned that additional children may have experienced abuse during the COVID pandemic.

Intermountain Spanish Fork Hospital Officially opened last week, and within ten hours welcomed its first baby.

Intermountain Healthcare says prevention and awareness can go a long way to addressing the roughly 9,000 patients diagnosed per year with testicular cancers.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many people were faced with serious illness or a medical emergency that required vital decisions about their medical care, and sometimes those decisions couldn't be made by the patient themselves. This has brought more awareness to the need for making advance directives.