Sen. Luz Escamilla was elected on Thursday to serve as Senate minority leader in the Utah Legislature. The rest of the party s new Senate leadership group are also women.
Drexel University’s A.J. Drexel Autism Institute was awarded a 5-year, $10 million Autism Centers of Excellence (ACE) award from the National Institutes of Health to understand and reduce barriers to good health and health care access for people with autism. The project titled “Public Health and Autism Science advancing Equitable Strategies across the life course” (PHASES) will employ a public health research framework to examine health determinants, health services delivery and health inequity – especially in under-represented diverse populations – and the impact of these forces on autistic people’s health outcomes.
On International Overdose Awareness Day, Utahns united to grieve loved ones lost to drug overdoses as well as bring awareness that these kinds of deaths are preventable.