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Yahoo
30-05-2025
- Business
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Intermountain Health first in nation to expand stem cell collection for CAR-T Cell Therapy bringing innovative cancer procedure to Southern Utah
ST. GEORGE, Utah (ABC4 Utah) – Intermountain Health is now offering a national first-of-its kind expansion of CAR-T Cell Therapy, bringing cutting-edge cancer care closer to patients in Southern Utah and Nevada. Intermountain's new CAR-T Cell satellite clinic in St. George marks a significant milestone to improve access to FDA approved CAR T-cell therapies at a regional clinic – and is the first time in the United States that CAR T-Cell collections are now available at a remote site away from a primary treatment center. Before expanding the CAR T-Cell therapy program, patients in southwest Utah, Nevada and beyond, had to travel hundreds of miles to Intermountain LDS Hospital in Salt Lake City for collection, transplant, and follow-up care. This innovative expansion of stem cell collection and CAR T-cell collection procedures at the Intermountain Health St. George Cancer Center provides advanced cancer treatment options closer to home for patients in the region. 'Expanding CAR-T Cell Therapy to Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital is a testament to our commitment to providing accessible, state-of-the-art cancer treatment,' said Brad Hunter, MD, medical oncologist and director of the CAR T-cell program at Intermountain LDS Hospital. 'This clinic will significantly enhance the quality of care for patients in Southern Utah and beyond our state boarders, offering them hope and healing without the need to travel long distances.' CAR-T Cell Therapy is a form of immunotherapy that harnesses the power of a patient's own immune system to fight cancer by genetically reprogramming T-cells to target and destroy cancer cells. 'This therapy has shown remarkable success in treating certain types of leukemia and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and we're grateful for the chance to make it more accessible,' said Dr. Hunter. This process is customized to each individual oncology patient and involves collecting the patient's immune cells or T cells, which are then sent to a different location and re-engineered. About two to three weeks later the patient will travel to Intermountain LDS Hospital for the re-programmed cells to be transplanted back to the patient. The new cells then target and kill the cancer cells by binding to the specific proteins or antigens on the cancer cells. The patient is observed to confirm the treatment is working and then sent home, with follow up appoints close to home. Jacqueline, 68, from Las Vegas, Nevada, received CAR-T therapy for her Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma last year at Intermountain LDS Hospital and says it saved her life. 'It was really miraculous,' said Jacqueline. 'I could see the back of my throat and see the lymph nodes, so swelled up and then within two weeks of the treatment, suddenly, they were just gone. They even scanned me and everything was gone.' Jacqueline and her husband had to travel to Salt Lake numerous times and stay for a month, they say the new Intermountain Health St. George CAR-T Cell satellite clinic will save some miles and will be nice for future cancer patients to have treatment, 'just down the street.' CAR T-Cell therapy is currently FDA approved for patients who have a variety of hematologic cancers, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), B-cell lymphomas, and multiple myeloma. For more information about the Intermountain Health CAR-T Cell Therapy program and services, go to Intermountain Health. Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Sposored by Intermountain Health. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
23-05-2025
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Sunshine and warmer temperatures through Friday afternoon
SALT LAKE CITY () — Happy Thursday, Utah! A weak trough may graze northern Utah Thursday afternoon with a spotty shower possible for the Uintas and Castle Country. Winds will become breezy ahead of this front out of the SW, so that could lead to an elevated fire threat across eastern Utah. Red Flag Warnings are in effect there for next few days. Try to avoid any outside burning. Another trough will graze the area this weekend, leveling off the warm-up and bringing isolated rain chances. Memorial Day continues to feature plenty of sunshine and another warm-up. Highs will be in the 80s along the Wasatch Front and mid to upper 90s for SW Utah. Stay tuned, we'll keep you 4Warned on-air and online! Discover a World of Color Happiness! at Disneyland's 70th celebration Intermountain offers in-office hand procedures for convenience and lower cost 'Special moment:' Utah trooper jumps in to help after baby born in car on highway Backed into your garage door? A+ Garage Doors fixes it fast Utah vs Scammers – The anti-scam crusade you need to know about Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Health
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Successful T-cell therapy for hematologic cancers now available in St. George
Cancer patients living in southern Utah and nearby states now have a facility offering a highly specialized treatment, much closer to home. Jacqueline, 68, lives in Las Vegas and says the CAR-T stem cell treatment she received at LDS Hospital saved her life — but she had to travel more than 400 miles to Salt Lake City to get the treatment for her non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. 'It was really miraculous,' Jacqueline said in a news release from Intermountain. 'I could see the back of my throat and see the lymph nodes so swelled up, and then within two weeks of the treatment, suddenly, they were just gone. They even scanned me, and everything was gone.' Jacqueline, who is referred to by her first name only in the release, says she traveled to Salt Lake City multiple times over the course of her treatment, staying for a month each time. Now, that same therapy is available at St. George Regional Hospital's Cancer Center, which Jacqueline said is 'just down the street' from her. CAR-T cell therapy, also known as chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, uses a patient's own immune system to fight their cancer. The therapy is customized to each patient, with doctors collecting the patient's T cells and reengineering them to target and destroy cancer cells by binding proteins or antigens to the cancer cell. The FDA has approved CAR-T cell therapy for patients with many hematologic cancers, including acute lymphoblastic leukemia, B-cell lymphomas and multiple myeloma. Intermountain says it is the first company in the country to bring the stem cell therapy outside of a primary treatment center to a regional clinic. Dr. Brad Hunter, director of the CAR T-cell program at LDS Hospital, says it will significantly improve access to quality care for patients in southern Utah and nearby states. 'Expanding CAR-T cell therapy to Intermountain St. George Regional Hospital is a testament to our commitment to providing accessible, state-of-the-art cancer treatment,' he said in the release. Hunter said the therapy has had 'remarkable success,' and Intermountain is grateful for the opportunity to make it more accessible. Once doctors confirm that the treatment is working, patients at the St. George Cancer Center will be sent home for further follow-up appointments closer to where they live.
Yahoo
25-04-2025
- Business
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West Virginia broadband switch to satellite internet may cost jobs, hurt consumers
FAIRMONT — The state of West Virginia spent two years of painstaking work settling on fiber optic cable as the best way to expand broadband service in the state. The Morrisey administration may undo that decision after taking a 90-day review period. 'Basically, we're going to throw away two years worth of work getting everything where it was,' Jeff Anderson, president of Communication Workers of America Local 2010 and a telecom engineer, said. 'Governor Morrisey has decided to go along with this complete change in thought process. Hundreds of people had input, went through a painstaking process and likely there will be a significant amount that will be directed to satellite internet, specifically Starlink — Elon Musk — and it's just not a great transition.' The state spent the past two years putting together a proposal for the Broadband Equity, Access and Deployment Program. The Biden Administration set BEAD up in 2021 to provide funding for a nationwide broadband infrastructure roll out to rural and underserved areas. The program was built with fiber in mind. The state of West Virginia's proposal was also one of the first three to be approved by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. In a press release, the Morrisey administration stated its intent to make its proposal more consistent with the Trump administration's broadband goals. The governor's office did not respond to a request for comment for this story. Anderson said in that two years of work, satellite internet had been eliminated as a possibility because it's not easy to upgrade. A large consideration was that whatever technology the state used, it had to have a service life of at least 50 years. The advantage fiber has — once the lines are laid down — the internet speeds consumers will receive are dictated by the equipment put on either end of the line. It's how telecoms such as Frontier are able to deliver service improvements 14 times faster over a span of three years. Satellites, by contrast, don't have the same flexibility. After five or seven years, Anderson said the satellite system starts to accumulate problems which results in the need to either launch more satellites or purge users from the system. SpaceX charges $1,200 per pound to orbit. A third generation Starlink satellite weighs about 4,188 pounds. A conceivable cost to launch a single additional Starlink satellite to augment the network could cost as much as $5.03 million. Planetside equipment is much easier to access by comparison. More than that, Anderson said capacity constraints present in a satellite system can end up throttling the speeds users get during peak times. Users who rely on telework would also experience suboptimal performance since satellite service bottlenecks upload speed. Telework is upload intensive. Relying on Starlink is like slapping a bandage on the state's broadband problem, Anderson said. Anderson hasn't been the only one to raise these concerns. The Intermountain reported that the Grant County Commission sent a letter to Morrisey arguing fiber is a more affordable solution for Grant County residents, and has better technical support from local internet service providers. 'From our experience, you cannot talk to technical support when asking for help from Starlink,' they wrote in the letter. Bill Bissett, chairman of the West Virginia Broadband Enhancement Council, also told the Intermountain that fiber is the best deployment of broadband, with the longest life, best throughput and what's needed for Morrisey's push to turn the state into a hub for data centers. Anderson sits on the West Virginia Workforce Council, and he said they spent a lot of time talking to lawmakers and other stakeholders, as well as the broadband council. They received input from education leaders in higher education, K-12, business and labor, all who provided the input which eventually boiled down to fiber as the best choice. However, the complication fiber advocates face is that after receiving notification the state would receive $1.2 billion for fiber, none of it has materialized yet. 'To be honest, it turned into a very difficult process, a process I don't believe another state in the country was able to negotiate through the process and all the steps,' Sen. Mike Oliverio, R-Monongalia, said. 'I think new administration at the state level, the Morrisey administration, really needs to take a step back and look at how technology has changed in roughly the last 24 months, and what actual dollars are going to be available and try to make some decisions.' Politico reported last September that the requirements for funding in BEAD, specifically those tied to affordability requirements telecommunication companies say is too tight, delayed disbursement of the funds. Oliverio placed blame on the Biden administration for making states jump through too many hoops for the program. National level Republicans turned the program into a culture war issue, blaming Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for delays, but Democrats argued it was reasonable to ensure companies that receive federal money roll the program out in a responsible way that consumers could afford. Although the state had its BEAD proposal approved by NTIA, Sen. Joey Garcia, D-Marion, said none of the funding from the BEAD program has been allocated yet. Politico reported in September the Biden administration expected funding to roll out by 2025. Garcia said that although Starlink may part of the solution for broadband access in West Virginia, fiber, once built, will provide lower rates for consumers. 'If we're just going to allocate money toward having Starlink, at some point, consumers are going to be responsible for that,' Garcia said. 'I think that's going to be an issue for how many West Virginians can afford it.' There's also the Elon Musk shaped elephant to consider. Anderson pointed out how close Musk is to the Trump Administration. The administration has already shown a willingness to bolster one of Musk's companies by holding a Tesla car show on the White House lawn after consumers started boycotting Tesla over Musk's work to dismantle the federal government through DOGE, as well as his two Nazi salutes at inauguration rallies. The Trump Administration is rewriting the BEAD program to enable federal dollars to go toward satellite internet. Charlie Dennie, former director of the state's Broadband Office, told Mountain State Spotlight the state's changes to its proposal would allow Musk to collect more dollars from BEAD. Evan Feinman, who had his contract renewal as head of NTIA rejected by the Trump administration, wrote in a farewell letter that stranding all or part of rural America with worse internet so the world's richest man can get richer was another betrayal in a long line of them from Washington. However, the administration argued it's adopting a technology neutral approach. Anderson brought up an additional dimension of how switching to satellite might hurt the state. Jobs. 'All of the [telecom] companies around here locally, in anticipation of getting this funding, we have ramped up our employee base and provided a lot of people with good local jobs,' he said. 'If this funding is slashed or cut completely, a lot of people will be laid off or let go in general. It's going to be a real hit to the economy.' Anderson said they expect a final decision from Morrisey on May 9.
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Business
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Judge: Ski company broke N.Y. antitrust law closing Toggenburg
SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) — A judge ruled that the Central New York ski company, Intermountain Management, violated New York's antitrust law when it bought and shut down Toggenburg Mountain, the New York Attorney General's Office announced on Monday, March 10. Black Lives Matter mural is being taken away Judge: Ski company broke N.Y. antitrust law closing Toggenburg CFPB official details DOGE 'chaos' in overtaking agency New York support for congestion pricing rises as Trump moves against policy: Poll Republicans plan to vote on funding bill Intermountain, which owns and operates two ski resorts in the Syracuse area, Song Mountain and Labrador Mountain, purchased Toggenburg Mountain in 2021. After purchasing it, Toggenburg Mountain was shut down and Intermountain used a deed restriction to stop future buyers from ever operating Toggenburg as a ski resort, the NY AG's Office stated. This caused skiers to suffer higher prices and more crowded mountains and facilities due to the lack of competition, the NY AG said. In 2022, New York Attorney General Letitia James sued Intermountain, alleging that it illegally stifled competition and created a monopoly. In this ruling, the judge stated that Intermountain's purchasing and shutting down of Toggenburg violated New York's antitrust law and drove up its profits by eliminating choices for customers. Court proceedings on how to remedy the situation will take place in the future, the NY AG's Office said. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
