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The Washington state Capitol building.

Washington bill would lower legal blood alcohol level limit

The Washington state Capitol building.

January 25, 2023, 7:41am Health

A bill under consideration in Washington would make it the second state in the country to lower the legal limit for a driver’s blood alcohol content from 0.08% to 0.05%. Read story

FILE - An Amazon logo appears on a delivery van, Oct. 1, 2020, in Boston. Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business. The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships.

Amazon launches a subscription prescription drug service

FILE - An Amazon logo appears on a delivery van, Oct. 1, 2020, in Boston. Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business. The retail giant said Tuesday that it will launch RxPass, a subscription service for customers who have Prime memberships.

January 24, 2023, 7:35am Business

Amazon is adding a prescription drug discount program to its growing health care business. Read story

Evergreen Public Schools and Vancouver Public Schools to host fentanyl awareness events

January 24, 2023, 6:00am Clark County News Free

Evergreen Public Schools and Vancouver Public Schools will host two fentanyl awareness seminars next month in partnership with Educational Service District 112, the Clark County Sheriff’s Office and the Vancouver Police Department. Read story

Tips to overcome bed-wetting

January 24, 2023, 6:00am Health

“Mom, dad? I’m wet.” Read story

Oregon launches abortion hotline offering free legal advice

January 23, 2023, 3:50pm Health

Oregon is launching a new abortion hotline offering free legal advice to callers, moving to further defend abortion access after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade last summer and eliminated federal protections for the procedure. Read story

Kindergarten vaccination rates drop in all but 3 Washington counties

January 23, 2023, 2:37pm Health

In the 2021-22 school year, only one county in Washington reached the federal target of 95 percent or more children receiving all required vaccinations before entering kindergarten. Read story

FILE - A nurse prepares a syringe of a COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., July 19, 2022. U.S. health officials are proposing a simplified approach to COVID-19 vaccinations, which would allow most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus. The new system unveiled Monday, Jan. 23, 2023 would make COVID-19 inoculations more like the annual flu shot. Americans would no longer have to keep track of how many shots they've received or how many months it's been since their last booster. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

U.S. proposes once-a-year COVID shots for most Americans

FILE - A nurse prepares a syringe of a COVID-19 vaccine at an inoculation station in Jackson, Miss., July 19, 2022. U.S. health officials are proposing a simplified approach to COVID-19 vaccinations, which would allow most adults and children to get a once-a-year shot to protect against the mutating virus. The new system unveiled Monday, Jan. 23, 2023 would make COVID-19 inoculations more like the annual flu shot. Americans would no longer have to keep track of how many shots they've received or how many months it's been since their last booster. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

January 23, 2023, 12:59pm Health Free

U.S. health officials want to make COVID-19 vaccinations more like the annual flu shot. Read story

Military probing whether cancers linked to nuclear silo work

January 23, 2023, 8:32am Health

Nine military officers who had worked decades ago at a nuclear missile base in Montana have been diagnosed with blood cancer and there are “indications” the disease may be linked to their service, according to military briefing slides obtained by The Associated Press. One of the officers has died. Read story

Aubrey Schmeider, left, shares a laugh with her fellow nurses during a surprise baby shower held in the nurse's station at the ER at Meadville Medical Center, on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.

Courage amid crisis: Battered by COVID-19 years and a staffing shortage, these nurses fight to keep quality care front and center

Aubrey Schmeider, left, shares a laugh with her fellow nurses during a surprise baby shower held in the nurse's station at the ER at Meadville Medical Center, on Tuesday, Dec. 13, 2022.

January 22, 2023, 6:02am Business

A crush of names clogs a computer screen in an office where sick and hurting people shuffle in one by one, bundled against the winter cold. Read story

FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. Doctors tend to worry that holiday gatherings can spark new surges in infectious diseases like the flu. But new government data suggests that didn't happen this year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023 reported that flu has continued to wane this month. (AP Photo/Mark J.

How scientists trained computers to forecast COVID-19 outbreaks weeks ahead

FILE - A patient is given a flu vaccine at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. Doctors tend to worry that holiday gatherings can spark new surges in infectious diseases like the flu. But new government data suggests that didn't happen this year. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Friday, Jan. 13, 2023 reported that flu has continued to wane this month. (AP Photo/Mark J.

January 22, 2023, 6:00am Health

Imagine a time when your virus-blocking face covering is like an umbrella. Most days, it stays in your closet or is stowed somewhere in your car. But when a COVID-19 outbreak is in the forecast, you can put it to use. Read story