Healthy Living
Multi-family yard sale to aid Bountiful man
BOUNTIFUL — Family and friends of Chad Freckleton are teaming up to help defray the medical costs from two lifesaving liver transplants he received last year. Volunteers are holding a multi-fami...
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Prescription payment and other aid available for those in financial need
FARMINGTON — No matter what a person’s age, if he or she is in financial need, they may be eligible for prescription or monetary assistance. That’s the word from JoAnn Berzett, who manages th...
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Julie Rice and others help prepare Danny Salazar for his sidecar ride. Longtime hospital patient gets chance for dream ride
BOUNTIFUL — Danny Salazar got more than the motorcycle ride he’d recently wished for. On a sunny July day last week, he got to lead a parade. Salazar, who has lived 24 of his 26 years at South ...
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REGULAR PATIENT JILL ZOLLINGER gets her blood pressure checked during a recent visit to Bountiful InstaCare facility. InstaCare/KidsCare serves dozens of area kids per day
BOUNTIFUL — On a typical day, dozens of area residents are getting those “after hours” scrapes and more serious injuries taken care of at the Bountiful InstaCare and KidsCare facilities on north...
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HealthBeat: Avoid ‘germ’ animals as pets
Playing with reptiles and birds can be a bad idea. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says critter contact causes about 74,000 cases a year of salmonella infection. The CDC’s Linda Cap...
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DAVID BLAND, CEO, shows equipment at Orchard Cove. South Davis Community Hospital gives much more than just patient care
BOUNTIFUL — It might have the word “hospital” in the name — but those who work there believe it is more like home. The South Davis Community Hospital ( SDCH ) has been part of Bountiful for almo...
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HealthBeat: Eating after exercise
by Ira Dreyfuss
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What you eat after exercise may enhance or prolong the health benefits of exercise. At the University of Michigan, Jeffrey Horowitz found when people ate low carbohydrate meals after exercise, the...
Bountiful woman battles weight on her own terms
by Becky Ginos
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BOUNTIFUL — Millions of Americans are in a constant battle with weight. Diet after diet, surgery, pills — and still they can’t shed the extra pounds. Local resident Lindsay Strong, 25, knows the f...
Lakeview becomes only stroke receiving facility in Davis County
by Becky Ginos
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BOUNTIFUL — The Utah Department of Health (UDOH) has verified Lakeview Hospital as a stroke receiving facility, making it the only hospital in Davis County with the designation. It will now become ...
Davis hospital honored for infant hearing tests
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LAYTON — For the third year in a row, Davis Hospital and Medical Center in Layton has won the Award of Excellence from the Utah Department of Health’s Early Hearing Detection and Intervention Progr...
Local physician receives Doctor of the Year Award
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BOUNTIFUL — A local plastic surgeon has been selected by the Utah Medical Association as the Utah Doctor of the Year. Daniel Shane Sellers, M.D., was honored recently with a plaque presented by Go...
Local physician receives Doctor of the Year Award
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BOUNTIFUL — Hundreds of area residents converged on the South Davis Recreation Center, last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. They were seeking information provided by various businesses which parti...
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By MITCH STACY 2010-09-08T12:00:53Z
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) -- The leader of a small Florida church that espouses anti-Islam philosophy said Wednesday he was determined to go through with his plan to burn copies of the Quran on Sept. 11, despite pressure from the White House, religious leaders and others to call it off....
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