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A delivery man past through the entrance to a community on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Beijing. China's capital began another round of three days of mass testing for millions of its residents Tuesday in a bid to prevent an outbreak from growing to Shanghai proportions.

Shanghai re-tightens on COVID, frustrating trapped residents

A delivery man past through the entrance to a community on Tuesday, May 10, 2022, in Beijing. China's capital began another round of three days of mass testing for millions of its residents Tuesday in a bid to prevent an outbreak from growing to Shanghai proportions.

May 10, 2022, 7:31am Health

The city of Shanghai is doubling down on pandemic restrictions after a brief period of loosening up, frustrating residents who were hoping a more than monthlong lockdown was finally easing as the number of new cases falls in China’s financial center. Read story

Pat Anderson, 89, far right, leads the Sisterhood of the Boobless Wonders, a group of seven senior lady knitters who are all breast cancer survivors. Together, these local women hand-knit breast-shaped yarn pillowlike prosthetics for women who have had mastectomies. Pictured from left, top to bottom: Pat Hamada 87, Jan Rillie, 70, K.J. Koljonen, 67, Pat Anderson, 89, and Pat Moller, 84.

Breast cancer survivors are yarn good

Pat Anderson, 89, far right, leads the Sisterhood of the Boobless Wonders, a group of seven senior lady knitters who are all breast cancer survivors. Together, these local women hand-knit breast-shaped yarn pillowlike prosthetics for women who have had mastectomies. Pictured from left, top to bottom: Pat Hamada 87, Jan Rillie, 70, K.J. Koljonen, 67, Pat Anderson, 89, and Pat Moller, 84.

May 10, 2022, 6:05am Breast Cancer

On the last Sunday of each month, 89-year-old Pat Anderson of Escondido, Calif., gets together with the six other local senior women who make up her highly specialized knitting circle. But don’t let these ladies’ shared passion for knitting fool you into thinking they’re leisurely hobbyists. Read story

FILE - In this photo provided by Pfizer, a lab technician visually inspects COVID-19 Paxlovid tablet samples in Freiburg, Germany in December 2021. As more doctors prescribe Pfizer's powerful COVID-19 pill, new questions are emerging about its performance, including why a small number of patients appear to relapse after taking the drug.

Rare cases of COVID returning pose questions for Pfizer pill

FILE - In this photo provided by Pfizer, a lab technician visually inspects COVID-19 Paxlovid tablet samples in Freiburg, Germany in December 2021. As more doctors prescribe Pfizer's powerful COVID-19 pill, new questions are emerging about its performance, including why a small number of patients appear to relapse after taking the drug.

May 9, 2022, 11:12am Health

As more doctors prescribe Pfizer’s powerful COVID-19 pill, new questions are emerging about its performance, including why a small number of patients appear to relapse after taking the drug. Read story

Bird flu confirmed in Washington backyard flock

May 9, 2022, 7:32am Health

An avian flu virus quickly spreading across the U.S. has been detected in a Washington noncommercial backyard flock in Pacific County, the state’s Department of Agriculture said Friday. Read story

At U.S. hospitals, a drug mix-up is just a few keystrokes away

May 8, 2022, 6:37am Health

More than four years ago, Tennessee nurse RaDonda Vaught typed two letters into a hospital’s computerized medication cabinet, selected the wrong drug from the search results, and gave a patient a fatal dose. Read story

Developments in blood clot treatment saved one man’s life after long COVID. He’s hoping it helps others too

May 8, 2022, 6:18am Business

When Eugene Roberts heard while lying in the emergency room that he had blood clots in the main pulmonary artery to his lungs, he began to prepare to die. Read story

Alisa Roost and her son.

As embryo donation gains popularity in Oregon, parents grapple with complicated questions

Alisa Roost and her son.

May 8, 2022, 6:05am Health

There’s a game Alisa Roost plays with her son when he’s just out of the bath. Read story

‘I’ll give you a kidney’: Newport woman who watched co-worker’s struggle with disease becomes her organ donor

May 8, 2022, 6:04am Health

Shacklett, 55, needed the organ transplant because of a hereditary condition, polycystic kidney disease, which causes large kidney cysts. Another complication can be a connective tissue disorder leading to an aneurysm, caught early for her but fatal for two of her relatives. Read story

Medicare surprise: Drug plan prices touted during open enrollment can rise within a month

May 8, 2022, 6:02am Health

Something strange happened between the time Linda Griffith signed up for a new Medicare prescription drug plan during last fall’s enrollment period and when she tried to fill her first prescription in January. Read story

FILE - This May 10, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of fentanyl test strips in New York. After years of rising death tolls from a surge in drug addiction, Kentucky officials on Thursday, July 18, 2019, reported the first statewide drop in drug overdose deaths since 2013.

As overdoses soar, more states decriminalize fentanyl testing strips

FILE - This May 10, 2018, file photo shows an arrangement of fentanyl test strips in New York. After years of rising death tolls from a surge in drug addiction, Kentucky officials on Thursday, July 18, 2019, reported the first statewide drop in drug overdose deaths since 2013.

May 8, 2022, 6:02am Health

With time running out in the 2022 legislative session, Georgia lawmakers took up a bill to regulate raw milk. Read story