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File - The Biogen Inc., headquarters, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. Medicare says it's considering a cut in enrollee premiums, after officials stuck with an earlier decision to sharply limit coverage for a pricey new Alzheimer's drug projected to drive up program costs.

Medicare weighs premium cut after limiting Alzheimer’s drug

File - The Biogen Inc., headquarters, Wednesday, March 11, 2020, in Cambridge, Mass. Medicare says it's considering a cut in enrollee premiums, after officials stuck with an earlier decision to sharply limit coverage for a pricey new Alzheimer's drug projected to drive up program costs.

April 7, 2022, 3:48pm Business

Medicare said Thursday it’s considering a cut in enrollee premiums, after officials stuck with an earlier decision to sharply limit coverage for a pricey new Alzheimer’s drug projected to drive up program costs. Read story

FILE - In this April 4, 2020, file photo, Bethany White, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center supply chain manager, helps stabilize a shifting pallet of protective gowns as the third of five shipments of PPEs arrived at Sacred Heart from the state in Spokane.

Sacred Heart Medical Center will accept long COVID patients for national study

FILE - In this April 4, 2020, file photo, Bethany White, Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center supply chain manager, helps stabilize a shifting pallet of protective gowns as the third of five shipments of PPEs arrived at Sacred Heart from the state in Spokane.

April 7, 2022, 9:07am Health

Patients across the Inland Northwest suffering from long COVID have an opportunity to be a part of the science and research seeking to find treatments and answers. Read story

FILE - Customers look through empty shelves at a supermarket in Shanghai, China, on March 30, 2022. Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes, fueling frustration as the government tries to contain a spreading outbreak.

Shanghai wrestles with food shortages under virus shutdown

FILE - Customers look through empty shelves at a supermarket in Shanghai, China, on March 30, 2022. Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes, fueling frustration as the government tries to contain a spreading outbreak.

April 7, 2022, 7:31am Business

Residents of Shanghai are struggling to get meat, rice and other food supplies under anti-coronavirus controls that confine most of its 25 million people in their homes, fueling frustration as the government tries to contain a spreading outbreak. Read story

A woman holds the walker once belonging to her mother, who died of COVID-19 while at a nursing home, as her family prays before Thanksgiving dinner in 2020 in Deer Park, N.Y.

Nursing home care needs overhaul, report says

A woman holds the walker once belonging to her mother, who died of COVID-19 while at a nursing home, as her family prays before Thanksgiving dinner in 2020 in Deer Park, N.Y.

April 7, 2022, 5:59am Health

Nursing home residents are subjected to ineffective care and poor staffing, while facility finances are shrouded in secrecy and regulatory lapses go unenforced, according to a report Wednesday that called for wholesale changes in an industry whose failures have been spotlighted by the pandemic. Read story

Oregon COVID-19 cases, testing numbers tick up

April 6, 2022, 4:33pm Health

Oregon health officials on Wednesday reported the first increase in positive COVID-10 test results in more than two months. Read story

FILE - Medical personnel place pre-loaded syringes as they vaccinate students at KIPP Believe Charter School in New Orleans, Jan. 25, 2022. While many Americans are trying to move on with their lives after two years of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. health officials are only beginning to decide on a strategy for using the COVID-19 vaccines to stay ahead of the outbreak. A panel of vaccine experts is meeting Wednesday, April 6, 2022 to discuss key questions for future COVID-19 booster campaigns, including how often the shots should be updated against new viral strains and who should get them.

U.S. experts discuss COVID boosters for the fall and beyond

FILE - Medical personnel place pre-loaded syringes as they vaccinate students at KIPP Believe Charter School in New Orleans, Jan. 25, 2022. While many Americans are trying to move on with their lives after two years of the coronavirus pandemic, U.S. health officials are only beginning to decide on a strategy for using the COVID-19 vaccines to stay ahead of the outbreak. A panel of vaccine experts is meeting Wednesday, April 6, 2022 to discuss key questions for future COVID-19 booster campaigns, including how often the shots should be updated against new viral strains and who should get them.

April 6, 2022, 12:02pm Health Free

While many Americans are trying to move on with their lives after two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. health officials are debating the best way to use vaccines to stay ahead of the coronavirus. Read story

A health worker wearing a protective suit walks by masked residents who wait in line to get their throat swab at a coronavirus testing site following a COVID-19 case was detected in a residential buildings, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Beijing.

WHO: COVID cases and deaths continue to fall globally

A health worker wearing a protective suit walks by masked residents who wait in line to get their throat swab at a coronavirus testing site following a COVID-19 case was detected in a residential buildings, Wednesday, April 6, 2022, in Beijing.

April 6, 2022, 8:47am Health

The number of coronavirus cases reported globally has dropped for a second consecutive week and confirmed COVID-19 deaths also fell last week, according to a World Health Organization report issued Wednesday. Read story

Workers exit a large tent set up in front of the emergency room at EvergreenHealth Medical Center, Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle. In the area that has led the country in COVID-19 coronavirus cases and also across the country, hospitals are gearing up for an onslaught of coronavirus patients, but staff on the front lines are stretched thin and don&#039;t have the equipment they need to protect themselves from the highly contagious virus. (AP Photo/Ted S.

New glimpse into Washington’s earliest COVID deaths — and why we may never have a complete record

Workers exit a large tent set up in front of the emergency room at EvergreenHealth Medical Center, Tuesday, March 17, 2020, in Kirkland, Wash., near Seattle. In the area that has led the country in COVID-19 coronavirus cases and also across the country, hospitals are gearing up for an onslaught of coronavirus patients, but staff on the front lines are stretched thin and don&#039;t have the equipment they need to protect themselves from the highly contagious virus. (AP Photo/Ted S.

April 6, 2022, 7:43am Health Free

On the Saturday afternoon of Feb. 29, 2020, reporters joined local and state health officials, packing into a room for a news conference in downtown Seattle. Details were shared about what appeared to be the first COVID-19 death in the nation just the day before. Read story

FILE - Paul "Rip" Connell, CEO of Private Clinic North, a methadone clinic, shows a 35 mg liquid dose of methadone at the clinic in Rossville, Ga., on March 7, 2017. A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are taking medication to wean themselves off their addiction. In guidelines published Tuesday, April 5, 2022, the DOJ said employers, health care providers, jails and others cannot discriminate against people because they are taking prescribed drugs to treat opioid use disorder. (AP Photo/Kevin D.

US: Discrimination based on opioid treatment violates law

FILE - Paul "Rip" Connell, CEO of Private Clinic North, a methadone clinic, shows a 35 mg liquid dose of methadone at the clinic in Rossville, Ga., on March 7, 2017. A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are taking medication to wean themselves off their addiction. In guidelines published Tuesday, April 5, 2022, the DOJ said employers, health care providers, jails and others cannot discriminate against people because they are taking prescribed drugs to treat opioid use disorder. (AP Photo/Kevin D.

April 5, 2022, 12:58pm Health

A deepening opioid epidemic is prompting the U.S. Department of Justice to warn about discrimination against those who are prescribed medication to treat their addictions. Read story

Vice President Kamala Harris reacts as President Joe Biden shakes hands with former President Barack Obama after Obama jokingly called Biden vice president in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2022.

Obama touts health care law, calls it ‘high point’ of tenure

Vice President Kamala Harris reacts as President Joe Biden shakes hands with former President Barack Obama after Obama jokingly called Biden vice president in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, April 5, 2022.

April 5, 2022, 11:50am Health

President Barack Obama returned to the White House on Tuesday to savor the 12th anniversary of his signature Affordable Care Act, which is now part of the fabric of the American health care system and whose reach President Joe Biden is looking to extend. Read story