November 28, 2022, 7:40am Health
Kirsten Paulsen began 2022 wanting to eat healthier and incorporate more vegetables into her diet. She found Daily Harvest, a food delivery company that touts easy to prep, plant-based meals, and signed up for regular shipments of smoothies, vegetable bowls and vegan ingredients to add to other dishes. Read story
November 28, 2022, 6:01am Editor's Choice
On March 18, 1980, one of Boeing’s top doctors made “a rather disastrous attempt” to alert company leadership to a problem that could be fatal. Read story
November 28, 2022, 6:00am Health
Most rarely take note of the subtle “lub-dub” in their chest. A steady drum, rising and falling with emotions. Read story
November 27, 2022, 6:02am Health
Sunset Hill commuters call her the running girl. Read story
November 27, 2022, 6:00am Health
Among the more remarkable legacies of the COVID-19 pandemic is how quickly federal regulators, the health care industry and consumers moved to make at-home testing a reliable tool for managing a public health crisis. Read story
November 27, 2022, 5:55am Health
When Elko County commissioners rejected a $500,000 grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that could have helped the county create a health department or health district, Kayla Hopkins pleaded with them to reconsider. Read story
November 25, 2022, 8:31am Health
A year after omicron began its assault on humanity, the ever-morphing coronavirus mutant drove COVID-19 case counts higher in many places just as Americans gathered for Thanksgiving. It was a prelude to a wave that experts expect to soon wash over the U.S. Read story
November 24, 2022, 12:50pm Health
The number of abortions reported to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control fell once again in 2020, extending a decade-long downward trend, largely driven by a decrease in rates among teens. Read story
November 24, 2022, 12:44pm Health
Washington state has confirmed its first pediatric flu death of the 2022-23 influenza season, pushing public health leaders to more urgently sound the alarm on the region’s steep rise of respiratory infections this fall. Read story
November 24, 2022, 6:02am Health
Children’s hospitals in the Pacific Northwest are struggling to maintain enough space for their young patients, and some report being over capacity amid increasing strain due to a surge in respiratory illness and hospitalizations. Read story
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