January 10, 2022, 6:02am Health
Even in a normal year, a lot of people feel down around this time. And for those of us who live in the Seattle area, the unrelenting gray skies that are typical don’t help matters. Read story
January 9, 2022, 10:36am Health
Flanked by their lawyers, the divorced parents hashed out an agreement outside the Pasadena, California, courtroom and returned to inform the judge: They had agreed their young son would get the COVID-19 vaccine. Read story
January 9, 2022, 6:26am Health
As omicron sweeps through North America, the U.S. and Canadian responses couldn’t be more different. U.S. states are largely open for business, while Canada’s biggest provinces are shutting down. Read story
January 9, 2022, 6:00am Health
This started as a story about what happens after a pandemic ends. Read story
January 9, 2022, 6:00am Health
The last bet Lou Remillard placed was a $2,000 online sports wager on a Major League Baseball game. The 46-year-old Las Vegas restaurateur was drunk and broken at the time and said that he no longer cared to be alive. Read story
January 9, 2022, 6:00am Health
It’s been nearly 50 years since a group of researchers in Chicago reported an extraordinary finding: They’d created a vaccine against drug addiction and an early test showed it might work. Read story
January 7, 2022, 9:56am Health
Hospitalizations of U.S. children under 5 with COVID-19 soared in recent weeks to their highest level since the pandemic began, according to government data released Friday on the only age group not yet eligible for the vaccine. Read story
January 7, 2022, 8:52am Health
U.S. regulators on Friday shortened the time that people who received Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccine have to wait for a booster — to five months rather than six. Read story
January 6, 2022, 3:59pm Health
For the fourth consecutive day Oregon has shattered previous high marks of daily COVID-19 cases, with health officials reporting 7,615 new cases on Thursday. Read story
January 6, 2022, 8:58am Health
Afternoons with Grammy. Birthday parties. Meeting other toddlers at the park. Parents of children too young to be vaccinated are facing difficult choices as an omicron variant-fueled surge in COVID-19 cases makes every encounter seem risky. Read story
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