June 4, 2023, 6:05am Health
Delores Lowery remembers vividly the day in 2016 when she was working in a weaving plant near her home in Bennettsville, South Carolina, and the world around her seemed to go dim. Read story
June 4, 2023, 6:00am Health
The criminal case of an Aurora, Colorado, couple charged in the co-sleeping death of their 2-day-old baby has spurred outcry from state reproductive justice groups who describe the prosecution as part of a growing trend across the country in which pregnant and postpartum people are facing more criminalization. Read story
June 3, 2023, 6:00am Health
Millions of Americans in the past few years have run into this experience: filing a health care insurance claim that once might have been paid immediately but instead is just as quickly denied. If the experience and the insurer’s explanation often seem arbitrary and absurd, that might be because companies… Read story
June 2, 2023, 2:00pm Health
The company that makes the opioid addiction treatment drug Suboxone has agreed to pay $102.5 million to 41 states and the District of Columbia to settle claims that the company engaged in anticompetitive practices, it announced Friday. Read story
June 2, 2023, 7:46am Health
Health officials urge people to take precautions when handling backyard poultry after 13 cases of salmonella in Washington. Read story
June 1, 2023, 6:57pm Health
A Tacoma woman who refused treatment for tuberculosis for more than a year, was arrested Thursday by Pierce County deputies to be isolated and treated in jail. Read story
June 1, 2023, 3:28pm Health
U.S. births were flat last year, as the nation saw fewer babies born than it did before the pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Thursday. Read story
June 1, 2023, 7:46am Health
Canada will soon become the first country in the world where warning labels must appear on individual cigarettes. Read story
June 1, 2023, 6:02am Health Free
Insulin, abortions, hearing aids and cancer screenings are among the medical expenses that may soon cost less for Washington residents with health insurance. Read story
May 31, 2023, 7:48am Health
The state attorney general’s office has filed a lawsuit against nearly two dozen manufacturers of so-called “forever chemicals,” asserting the companies knew about their risks to the environment and humans for decades but lied and kept that knowledge hidden from the government and public to protect their businesses. Read story
