May 8, 2024, 5:45pm Election Free
With a looming ballot initiative threatening to upend the finances of Washington’s long-term care benefit, the state is looking at contingency plans. Read story
May 6, 2024, 5:57pm Health
For the first time, researchers have identified a genetic form of late-in-life Alzheimer’s disease — in people who inherit two copies of a worrisome gene. Read story
May 5, 2024, 6:00am Health
As a young GI at Fort Ord in Monterey County, California, Dean Osborn spent much of his time in the oceanside woodlands, training on soil and guzzling water from streams and aquifers now known to be contaminated with cancer-causing pollutants. Read story
May 5, 2024, 5:30am Health
On a cold February morning at the Flathead Warming Center, Tashya Evans waited for help with her Medicaid application as others at the shelter got ready for the day in this northwestern Montana city. Read story
May 3, 2024, 4:11pm Health
Safety lapses at the Oregon State Hospital contributed to recent patient-on-patient assaults, a federal report on the state’s most secure inpatient psychiatric facility has found. Read story
May 2, 2024, 1:47pm Health
Halle Berry is joining a group of bipartisan senators to push for legislation that would put $275 million toward research and education around menopause, the significant hormone shift women go through in middle age. Read story
May 2, 2024, 8:28am Health
Congo is struggling to contain its biggest mpox outbreak, and scientists say a new form of the disease detected in a mining town might more easily spread among people. Read story
May 2, 2024, 8:20am Health
U.S. pregnancy-related deaths have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, new government data suggests. Read story
May 1, 2024, 5:57am Health
It’s wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o’clock somewhere. Read story
April 30, 2024, 9:35am Health
Regular mammograms to screen for breast cancer should start younger, at age 40, according to an influential U.S. task force. Women ages 40 to 74 should get screened every other year, the group said. Read story
