I Was Given 6 Months To Live. I Made 1 Unexpected Decision That Helped Me Beat The Odds.
The author at Antelope Island in Utah, near the Great Salt Lake, in summer 2022. Courtesy of Jillian Meyer Photo On October 1, 2021, after having what I had thought was routine thyroid surgery, I was diagnosed with anaplastic thyroid cancer, a cancer so rare that none of my doctors had ever seen it before. […]
Opinion | Abortion Is Not Murder in the Eyes of the Law
Recently, the Utah House of Representatives passed a bill that would have allowed pregnant women to use the high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) lane. The Utah Senate rejected this bill. HOV lanes are intended to reduce traffic congestion and help the environment. They have no further ambition. Bills like this are really attempts to imbue a fetus […]
CDC Examines Monkeypox’s Ability to Linger on Home Surfaces
Commonly used household surfaces in the Utah home of two infected and symptomatic monkeypox patients were covered with PCR-detected virus, yet no samples were culturable, according to a CDC investigation. Among 30 samples taken 20 days since the start of the patients’ isolation, 70% turned up positive on real-time positive PCR tests specific for non-variola […]