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Rising number of suicide attempts among young children worries physicians, poison centers in Northwest

May 31, 2022, 7:24am Health Free

Editor’s note: This story focuses on suicide, self-harm and other topics related to psychiatric distress. If you or a loved one is in crisis, resources are available here. Read story

Dr. Alexandra Moretti Morrison cleans her hands after treating a patient in the acute care unit, where about half the patients are COVID-19 positive or in quarantine after exposure, of Harborview Medical Center, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, in Seattle. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is deploying 100 members of the state National Guard to hospitals across the state amid staff shortages due to an omicron-fueled spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations. Inslee announced Thursday that teams will be deployed to assist four overcrowded emergency departments at hospitals in Everett, Yakima, Wenatchee and Spokane, and that testing teams will be based at hospitals in Olympia, Richland, Seattle and Tacoma.

Prevention techniques, treatment helping keep COVID-19 numbers down statewide

Dr. Alexandra Moretti Morrison cleans her hands after treating a patient in the acute care unit, where about half the patients are COVID-19 positive or in quarantine after exposure, of Harborview Medical Center, Friday, Jan. 14, 2022, in Seattle. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee is deploying 100 members of the state National Guard to hospitals across the state amid staff shortages due to an omicron-fueled spike in COVID-19 hospitalizations. Inslee announced Thursday that teams will be deployed to assist four overcrowded emergency departments at hospitals in Everett, Yakima, Wenatchee and Spokane, and that testing teams will be based at hospitals in Olympia, Richland, Seattle and Tacoma.

May 31, 2022, 7:15am Health

COVID-19 continues to spread across Washington, and quickly. Read story

Novavax missed its global moonshot but is angling to win over mRNA defectors

May 30, 2022, 9:04am Health

Novavax hitched its wagon to the global coronavirus pandemic. Before most Americans truly grasped the scope of the danger, the small Maryland biotech startup had secured $1.6 billion in U.S. funding for its COVID-19 vaccine. Its moonshot goal: delivering 2 billion shots to the world by mid-2021. 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.

WHO: Monkeypox won’t turn into pandemic, but many unknowns

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.

May 30, 2022, 8:44am Health

The World Health Organization’s top monkeypox expert 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… Read story

Tamarack Center in Spokane is one of Washington’s four inpatient psychiatric facilities for children and teenagers.

State’s mental health facilities for children are strained

Tamarack Center in Spokane is one of Washington’s four inpatient psychiatric facilities for children and teenagers.

May 30, 2022, 6:00am Health

On the website for Tamarack Center, big bold letters read “DOES IT WORK?” Read story

Server Jason Schweizer, far left, bartender Joe Beadle, owner and wellness director Deborah Friend Wilson, sous-chef Dorothy Allen, general manager Max Murtaugh and server Evan Hales, gather in a pre-shift meditation at The Lakehouse in Bellevue, Washington.

Drinking is part of restaurant industry culture, but what do you do when it becomes alcohol abuse?

Server Jason Schweizer, far left, bartender Joe Beadle, owner and wellness director Deborah Friend Wilson, sous-chef Dorothy Allen, general manager Max Murtaugh and server Evan Hales, gather in a pre-shift meditation at The Lakehouse in Bellevue, Washington.

May 30, 2022, 5:45am Health

In many bars and restaurants, alcohol plays a central role in the event of dining out. It’s there for celebrations or commiseration, considered an easy way to elevate any meal. Carefully crafted cocktails and meticulously curated wine lists can win awards, bring prestige. Servers and bartenders making and serving these… Read story

Ransomware attacks on hospitals put patients at risk

May 29, 2022, 6:02am Business

A University of Vermont Medical Center employee accidentally opened an emailed file from her homeowners association, which had been hacked, in October 2020. Read story

The new MADD movement: Parents rise up against drug deaths

May 29, 2022, 6:02am Health

Life as he knew it ended for Matt Capelouto two days before Christmas in 2019, when he found his 20-year-old daughter, Alexandra, dead in her childhood bedroom in Temecula, California. Rage overtook grief when authorities ruled her death an accident. Read story

Declining enrollment and higher labor and supply costs spell disaster for U.S. nursing homes, an industry that was under financial pressure even before the pandemic.

A worker shortage is driving U.S. nursing homes to the brink of collapse

Declining enrollment and higher labor and supply costs spell disaster for U.S. nursing homes, an industry that was under financial pressure even before the pandemic.

May 29, 2022, 6:00am Business

Chippewa Manor’s beds could be full. The nursing and rehabilitation home is seeing plenty of demand from potential patients, after two nearby facilities recently closed. But there’s one problem: There’s no one to care for residents. Read story

FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 5, 2022. Medicare recipients will get a premium reduction -- but not until next year. That reflects what Becerra says was an overestimate in costs of covering a costly and controversial new Alzheimer's drug.

Medicare recipients to see premium cut — but not until 2023

FILE - Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra arrives for a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 5, 2022. Medicare recipients will get a premium reduction -- but not until next year. That reflects what Becerra says was an overestimate in costs of covering a costly and controversial new Alzheimer's drug.

May 27, 2022, 3:58pm Health

Medicare recipients will get a premium reduction — but not until next year — reflecting what Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said Friday was an overestimate in costs of covering an expensive and controversial new Alzheimer's drug. Read story