Your Life Your Health

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss the partnership between Intermountain Health and Picterus AS to estimate bilirubin levels in newborn babies when using a smartphone camera.

Air date: May 14, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss the resources available to anyone needing help with mental health.

Air date: May 7, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss the many factors in losing weight through prescription weight loss drugs.

Air date: April 30, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss how parents-to-be can help develop a plan to manage stress and expectations.

Air date: April 23, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss planning ahead to handle emergency medical care for you and your loved ones.

Air date: April 16, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss more about the postpartum recovery period that follows giving birth.

Air date: April 9, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss more about the importance of registering to be an organ donor, and the need to help spread awareness.

Air date: April 2, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss more about end-of-life care and the navigation of grief and accompanying emotions.

Air date: March 26, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss more about prescription weight loss drugs--that there's no such thing as a "cure-all" solution, and what all you need to monitor in the process.

Air date: March 19, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss more about a disease that affects more than one in seven adults in the United States--kidney disease.

Air date: March 12, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss more about National Multiple Sclerosis Month--a disease that affects more than one million Americans.

Air date: March 5, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss more about the first clinic of its kind in the Intermountain West that is designed specifically to support Spanish-speaking patients undergoing kidney transplantation.

Air date: Feb. 27, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss more about the Hospital at Home Program.

Air date: Feb. 20, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, there’s a new healthcare leader for Intermountain Health in Spanish Fork, Utah. Listen in as we tell you more about her.

Air date: Feb. 13, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, February is American Heart Month, a time when people can focus on their heart health. Experts from the Intermountain Health Heart and Vascular Program are working to educate Utahns about ways to enhance their heart health. 

Air date:  Feb. 6, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, the second campus of Intermountain Health’s Primary Children’s Hospital is getting ready to open in Lehi. Listen in to learn more about its opening day and when services will be made available to patients.

Air date:  Jan. 30, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Lisa Nichols segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss how Intermountain Health caregivers and leaders recently helped assemble 350 Anchor Box Mental Health Kits that were delivered to schools, students, and facilities that help youth and young adults.

Air date:  Jan. 23, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Dr. Tamara Sheffield segment sponsored by Intermountain Health we discuss Familial hypercholesteremia or FH.  FH is an inherited condition that affects about one in two hundred and fifty people, and often shows no signs until they have a heart attack. For individuals with FH, the lowering of “bad” cholesterol levels can’t be done by just dietary or behavioral changes. The problem is in their genes, and targeted medications therapy is needed.

Air date:  Jan. 16, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Dr. Tamara Sheffield segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss how surgeons at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital are the first in the nation to successfully implant a new brain shunt accessory for young patients with hydrocephalus.  This neurological condition causes a buildup of cerebrospinal fluid in the deep cavities of the brain that often causes frequent hospitalizations.

Air date:  Jan. 9, 2024

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Dr. Tamara Sheffield segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss howDr. Payal Patel, a physician at Intermountain Health, is leading a national effort to reduce one of the most common types of infections that occur in hospital patients to improve care and reduce unnecessary costs. Dr. Patel is an infectious diseases physician at Intermountain Health and lead author of new national recommendations that address updated guidelines for the use of indwelling urinary catheters in hospital patients.

Air date:  Dec. 26, 2023

In this week’s Your Life Your Health with Dr. Tamara Sheffield segment sponsored by Intermountain Health, we discuss that for the second consecutive year, the College of Healthcare Information Management Executives – known as CHIME– has awarded Intermountain Health's hospitals and clinics in Utah with its highest designation as part of the organization’s Digital Health Most Wired survey for 2023. 

Air date:  Dec. 19, 2023

In this week’s Your Life Your Health segment with Dr. Tamara Sheffield from Intermountain Health, we look at how Intermountain Medical Center in Murray has the highest 30-day survival rate for heart attack patients. Data shows that patients who are treated at Intermountain Medical Center have the highest percent of surviving after a heart attack compared to all other hospitals in the United States. This is attributed to a multi-disciplinary approach and rapid treatment protocol. 

Air date:  Dec. 5, 2023

In this week’s Your Life Your Health segment with Dr. Tamara Sheffield from Intermountain Health segment, we examine how the 53^rdannual Festival of Trees will ring in the holiday season with hundreds of holiday items made to benefit children in need at Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital and beyond. Festival of Trees is 53-year-old Utah holiday tradition. The Festival of Trees is presented by Intermountain Foundation and serviced by a volunteer board and thousands of volunteers. 

Air date:  Nov. 28, 2023