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Wildfire smoke is now the primary pollutant affecting pregnancy, study shows

A new study examining pollution levels across a 16-year span found that while general pollution levels from sources such as cars and industry have significantly declined, recent increases in wildfire smoke air pollution have offset those gains and could be contributing to negative outcomes for ...

Ask Dr. Steve: Nobody warns you how much losing a friend hurts

There was no dramatic blowup. Nobody cheated, nobody screamed. The texts just got shorter. Plans stopped getting made. The person who once knew everything about you slowly became someone you'd nod to across a room. And you're grieving — genuinely grieving — but it feels like you're not ...

Ask Dr. Steve: The Sunday scaries are real — That 4 p.m. dread has a reason

It's Sunday afternoon. The weekend isn't over — there are still hours left — but you can already feel it draining away. Around 4 or 5 p.m. something shifts: a tightening in your chest, a low dread, your mind running tomorrow's to-do list before tomorrow has even arrived. The day is still ...

RMU: Rising-star educator Tye Jensen has a skeleton in his past

When he was in fifth grade, Tye Jensen badly wanted one item from the book fair at his Provo elementary school. It wasn’t a popular Goosebumps novel or any book for that matter. It wasn’t a multi-color click pen or a fuzzy neon Troll pencil topper, either. After begging his parents, he ...

Ask Dr. Steve: Why you stay up too late even though you’re exhausted

It's 12:40 a.m. You have to be up in six hours. You are not doing anything important — one more episode, one more scroll, one more video you won't even remember tomorrow. You're tired. You know you'll regret this. And yet some stubborn part of you refuses to go to bed, because going to bed ...

Ask Dr. Steve: Answering questions about psychology and personal experiences

This week Dr. Steve takes time to share answers to some of the questions he gets asked as a professional psychologist: Q. What inspired you to go into psychology and then provide mental health services? A. Even as a teenager, I was always helping other kids, mostly to learn skills in baseball ...

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