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This undated photo provided by Daiichi Sankyo and AstraZeneca in June 2022 shows a vial and packaging for their Enhertu, an antibody-chemotherapy drug administered intravenously.

Researchers: Breast cancer drug could help more patients

June 5, 2022, 1:42pm Health

For the first time, a drug targeting a protein that drives breast cancer growth has been shown to work against tumors with very low levels of the protein. Read story

Inslee hopes to strengthen Washington’s abortion rights

June 5, 2022, 6:02am Health

With the nation taking a closer look at abortion rights at the state level, Washington advocates and officials are not acting as confident as they were a few weeks ago, when a draft Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v. Wade was leaked. While Washington is one of just… Read story

Across the country and around the world, pregnant women are finding themselves pummeled on social media with video after video about the most terrifying aspects of pregnancy.

How Instagram and TikTok prey on pregnant women’s worst fears

June 5, 2022, 6:00am Business

When Adriana Lopez found out that she was pregnant, one of the first places she turned was TikTok. Read story

Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., stops for reporters asking about the fate of President Joe Biden's $3.5 trillion plan for social and environmental spending, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. (AP Photo/J.

Toxic exposure bill would rewrite America’s compact with veterans

June 3, 2022, 2:46pm Health

In a year in which Congress has strained for legislative achievements, a big one is in sight. When senators return from a Memorial Day recess spent honoring those who gave their lives for the United States, they will take up a bipartisan bill that will dramatically broaden America’s commitment to… Read story

FILE - This 2003 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows mature, oval-shaped monkeypox virions, left, and spherical immature virions, right, obtained from a sample of human skin associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. WHO's top monkeypox expert Dr. Rosamund Lewis said she doesn't expect the hundreds of cases reported to date to turn into another pandemic, but acknowledged there are still many unknowns about the disease, including how exactly it's spreading and whether the suspension of mass smallpox immunization decades ago may somehow be speeding its transmission. (Cynthia S.

2 monkeypox strains in U.S. suggest possible undetected spread

June 3, 2022, 1:27pm Health

Genetic analysis of recent monkeypox cases suggests there are two distinct strains in the U.S., health officials said Friday, raising the possibility that the virus has been circulating undetected for some time. Read story

More than two-thirds of people have COVID antibodies, WHO says

June 3, 2022, 7:44am Health

More than two-thirds of the world’s population probably have significant levels of COVID-19 antibodies, meaning they have either been infected or were vaccinated, the World Health Organization said. Read story

Christina Taylor holds plaster casts of her baby's hands and feet at her home in Littleton, Colo., on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. Taylor chose to get an abortion when she found out after 20 weeks that her baby had no kidneys or bladder. Taylor said she honors her loss with the casts, which were made by the hospital's bereavement team.

Limits on early abortion drive more women to get them later

June 2, 2022, 8:23am Health

An 18-year-old was undergoing treatment for an eating disorder when she learned she was pregnant, already in the second trimester. A mom of two found out at 20 weeks that her much-wanted baby had no kidneys or bladder. A young woman was raped and couldn't fathom continuing a pregnancy. Read story

FILE - Gretchen Raffa, vice president of public policy, advocacy and organizing at Planned Parenthood of Southern New England, Inc., appears with a group of Connecticut elected officials as she speaks at a news conference, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, at the Connecticut State Capitol in Hartford. Raffa thanked lawmakers for passing legislation this session that attempts to protect providers and patients from out-of-state legal actions filed in anti-abortion states.

With Roe in doubt, states weigh letting nurses do abortions

June 2, 2022, 8:20am Health

Abortion rights advocates saw a problem: There’s a limited pool of medical providers who can legally perform abortions. In some states, one solution has been to authorize more providers beyond just physicians. Read story

Kathy Wilkes of Ormond Beach, Fla., who has advanced pancreatic cancer, saw her tumors dramatically shrink after researchers in Oregon turbocharged her own immune cells.

Experimental treatment developed in Oregon shrinks pancreatic cancer

June 2, 2022, 6:04am Health

In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink after researchers in Oregon turbocharged her own immune cells, highlighting a possible new way to someday treat a variety of cancers. Read story

FILE - This 1997 image provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the right arm and torso of a patient, whose skin displayed a number of lesions due to what had been an active case of monkeypox. As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, in 2022, some doctors are acknowledging an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease's spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades.

Africans see inequity in monkeypox response elsewhere

June 1, 2022, 7:58am Health

As health authorities in Europe and elsewhere roll out vaccines and drugs to stamp out the biggest monkeypox outbreak beyond Africa, some doctors acknowledge an ugly reality: The resources to slow the disease’s spread have long been available, just not to the Africans who have dealt with it for decades. Read story