July 11, 2022, 8:05am Health
For the first time, a pharmaceutical company has asked for permission to sell a birth control pill over the counter in the U.S. Read story
July 11, 2022, 5:56am Business
All sorts of requests reach the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, via all sorts of methods, but rarely does a meaningful entreaty come via LinkedIn message. That, though, is how Micky Lawler, the president of the WTA women’s professional tennis tour, first reached out to the group about a partnership… Read story
July 10, 2022, 6:05am Health
At the beginning of the pandemic, administrators at tiny Summit Pacific Medical Center in Elma, Grays Harbor County, thought they had a good plan to manage COVID-19 patients. They would send patients about 30 minutes east to Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia in exchange for taking non-COVID-19 admissions. Read story
July 10, 2022, 6:03am Business
One and a half billion dollars is a big mea culpa, but that is what one philanthropy is throwing on the table to address what it admits is a longstanding problem: the failure to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) in health research. Read story
July 10, 2022, 6:00am Business
The grinding two-plus years of the pandemic have yielded outsize benefits for one company — Pfizer — making it both highly influential and hugely profitable as COVID-19 continues to infect tens of thousands of people and kill hundreds each day. Read story
July 10, 2022, 6:00am Health
On his 330th day in the hospital, Charlie Edgmon repeats a well-worn refrain to his mother Carmin. I just want to go home. Read story
July 10, 2022, 5:46am Health
Although abortion is legal in Washington, Lauren B. Simonds can quickly list ways Washingtonians — and those who come here for abortions — will be affected mentally and emotionally as abortion policy heads back to the states. Read story
July 8, 2022, 8:38am Health
Community health and LGBTQ rights leaders in California are demanding a much more aggressive response to monkeypox from government and health agencies, saying shortages of vaccines and limited public outreach are exacerbating the outbreaks. Read story
July 8, 2022, 7:47am Health
An Oregon Health Authority analysis released Thursday has found that drug overdose deaths in Oregon more than doubled between 2019 and 2021, driven largely by misuse of the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl. Read story
July 7, 2022, 7:23am Health
The four states bordering Montana have “trigger laws” in effect or pending now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ended federal protections for abortion, making conservative Big Sky Country an unlikely haven for women seeking to end their pregnancies. Read story
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