SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 2, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Utah Medical Products, Inc. (Nasdaq:UTMD) announces that its Board of Directors approved a quarterly cash dividend of twenty-three and one-half cents ($.235) per share of common stock payable on April 2, 2010 to shareholders of record at the close of business on March 12, 2010. This is a two percent (2%) increase over the dividend declared in the same quarter of the prior year.