Josuee Sanchez

3 weeks ago | kslnewsradio.com | Jason Swensen |Alexandrea Bonilla |Josuee Sanchez

Students will pay a $50 fee for each portfolio-based petition for prior learning credit assessments. Students who served at least 181 cumulative days of U.S. active-duty military service and were honorably discharged or are currently on active duty will also be eligible to receive four lower-division credit hours of basic training.

4 weeks ago | kslnewsradio.com | Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez

SALT LAKE CITY — During a press conference on Tuesday, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said measles should not kill healthy children. A Utah doctor disagreed. “Healthy children should not die of measles and there’s no reason they should,” Kennedy said. “If the doctors know how to treat [it] at the hospital, that will not happen.” Two children have died during a measles outbreak that began in West Texas in January.

4 weeks ago | kslnewsradio.com | Sam Herrera |Josuee Sanchez |Samantha Herrera

SALT LAKE CITY — The National Center on Shaken Baby Syndrome in Farmington celebrated 25 years of service on April 15. Executive Director Danielle Vazquez told Utah’s Noon News that the center provides families and caregivers with evidence-based education to prevent shaken baby syndrome. What is shaken baby syndrome? According to the center, shaken baby syndrome is an injury resulting from child abuse.

1 month ago | kslnewsradio.com | Adam Small |Alton Barnhart |Mariah Maynes |Josuee Sanchez

SALT LAKE CITY — A BYU graduate student has had his revoked without notice and told to go back to Japan before the end of April. He is among dozens of international students in Utah who were told their visas had been revoked last week. Suguru Onda has been living legally in the United States and said he has one year more before he completes his doctoral degree. Related:  ICE detaining immigrants on probation during court-ordered check-insWhat is a Form I-20, or I-20 visa?

1 month ago | kslnewsradio.com | Josuee Sanchez |Alton Barnhart |Mariah Maynes

SALT LAKE CITY — Researchers at the University of Utah say they’ve learned that one of the most common health-care-acquired infections, Clostridioides difficile or C. diff, spreads three times more than was originally thought. Right now, hospitals and care centers report about 225,000 cases of C. diff each year. It’s a germ that can cause diarrhea and colitis, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC also reports that C. diff can be life-threatening.