September 1, 2022, 5:30pm Health
New COVID-19 boosters that target today’s most common omicron strains are set to begin soon after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention endorsed the updated shots Thursday. Read story
September 1, 2022, 7:35am Health Free
While many Americans say they’ve resumed life as if COVID-19 were in the rearview mirror, people are still dying, different variants of the coronavirus continue to emerge and the way officials are trying to grapple with the disease is evolving. Read story
August 31, 2022, 1:43pm Health
U.S. life expectancy dropped for the second consecutive year in 2021, falling by nearly a year from 2020, according to a government report being released Wednesday. Read story
August 31, 2022, 12:34pm Clark County News Free
The Vancouver-Portland area is under an air quality advisory due to expected elevated pollution levels, according to the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality and Southwest Clean Air Agency. Read story
August 31, 2022, 7:46am Health
The embattled, outgoing administrator of the Spokane Regional Health District has agreed not to seek the position again following the expiration of her contract next month to resolve a complaint about her controversial dismissal of the organization’s former health officer. Read story
August 31, 2022, 7:46am Health
The U.S. on Wednesday authorized its first update to COVID-19 vaccines, booster doses that target today’s most common omicron strain. Shots could begin within days. Read story
August 30, 2022, 12:40pm Health
In the dim light of a clinic ultrasound room, Monica Eberhart reclines on an exam table as a nurse moves a probe across her belly. Waves of fetal cardiac activity ripple across the screen. Read story
August 30, 2022, 8:31am Business
A Christian health care organization is claiming a new interpretation of Michigan’s anti-discrimination law as it relates to sexual orientation and gender identity “poses an imminent threat” to the group’s constitutional rights to freedom of religion, religious exercise, speech and assembly. Read story
August 30, 2022, 8:07am Health
Independent U.N. human rights experts expressed concerns Tuesday about the adverse impact on the rights of racial and ethnic minorities from the U.S. Supreme Court decision that stripped away constitutional protections for abortion in the United States, and called on the Biden administration and state governments to do more to… Read story
August 30, 2022, 8:04am Health
The World Health Organization’s top director in the Western Pacific, Dr. Takeshi Kasai, has been indefinitely removed from his post, according to internal correspondence obtained by The Associated Press. Read story
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