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FILE - A man crosses a street against the backdrop of One World Trade Center at dusk in New York, on Saturday, March 21, 2020.

Countries struggle to draft ‘pandemic treaty’ to avoid mistakes made during COVID

FILE - A man crosses a street against the backdrop of One World Trade Center at dusk in New York, on Saturday, March 21, 2020.

May 10, 2024, 8:19am Health

After the coronavirus pandemic triggered once-unthinkable lockdowns, upended economies and killed millions, leaders at the World Health Organization and worldwide vowed to do better in the future. Years later, countries are still struggling to come up with an agreed-upon plan for how the world might respond to the next global… Read story

WA Cares supporters are sounding the alarm about what will happen to Washington's long-term care program should voters approve Initiative 2124 in November. I-2124 would make paying into WA Cares voluntary.

Why supporters of Washington’s long-term care program are worried

WA Cares supporters are sounding the alarm about what will happen to Washington's long-term care program should voters approve Initiative 2124 in November. I-2124 would make paying into WA Cares voluntary.

May 8, 2024, 5:45pm Election

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

FILE - A section of a human brain with Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease is displayed at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2003. A long-feared gene appears to do more than raise people&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s risk of Alzheimer&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s: Inheriting two copies can cause the mind-robbing disease, according to research published in the journal Nature Medicine on Monday, May 6, 2024.

A gene long thought to just raise the risk for Alzheimer’s may cause some cases

FILE - A section of a human brain with Alzheimer&rsquo;s disease is displayed at the Museum of Neuroanatomy at the University at Buffalo, in Buffalo, N.Y., Oct. 7, 2003. A long-feared gene appears to do more than raise people&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s risk of Alzheimer&Ccedil;&fnof;&Ugrave;s: Inheriting two copies can cause the mind-robbing disease, according to research published in the journal Nature Medicine on Monday, May 6, 2024.

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

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, a warning sign stands in a field contaminated with dioxin near Danang airport, during a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam. The sign reads; "Dioxin contamination zone - livestock, poultry and fishery operations not permitted." Vietnam and the United States have finished cleaning up dioxin contamination at the airport caused by the transport and storage of the herbicide on and around the area.

Exposed to Agent Orange at U.S. bases, veterans face cancer without VA compensation

FILE - In this Aug. 9, 2012, file photo, a warning sign stands in a field contaminated with dioxin near Danang airport, during a ceremony marking the start of a project to clean up dioxin left over from the Vietnam War, at a former U.S. military base in Danang, Vietnam. The sign reads; "Dioxin contamination zone - livestock, poultry and fishery operations not permitted." Vietnam and the United States have finished cleaning up dioxin contamination at the airport caused by the transport and storage of the herbicide on and around the area.

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

Unsheltered people are losing Medicaid in redetermination mix-ups

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

FILE - The general view of the Oregon State Hospital is seen, May 24, 2013, in Salem, Ore. A federal report says safety lapses at the Oregon State Hospital contributed to recent patient-on-patient assaults.

Safety lapses contributed to patient assaults at Oregon State Hospital, federal report says

FILE - The general view of the Oregon State Hospital is seen, May 24, 2013, in Salem, Ore. A federal report says safety lapses at the Oregon State Hospital contributed to recent patient-on-patient assaults.

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

Oscar-winning actor and women&rsquo;s health activist Halle Berry joins Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., second from left, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, and other women of the Senate as they introduce new legislation to boost federal research on menopause, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2024. The bipartisan Senate bill, the Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women&rsquo;s Health Act, would create public health efforts to improve women&rsquo;s mid-life health. (AP Photo/J.

Halle Berry shouts from the Capitol, ‘I’m in menopause’ as she seeks to end a stigma and win funding

Oscar-winning actor and women&rsquo;s health activist Halle Berry joins Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., second from left, and Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, right, and other women of the Senate as they introduce new legislation to boost federal research on menopause, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 2, 2024. The bipartisan Senate bill, the Advancing Menopause Care and Mid-Life Women&rsquo;s Health Act, would create public health efforts to improve women&rsquo;s mid-life health. (AP Photo/J.

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

A new form of mpox that may spread more easily found in Congo’s biggest outbreak

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

FILE - A single room, fully dedicated maternity room in a hospital maternity ward in Mississippi is seen on Oct. 11, 2012. In 2023, U.S. pregnancy-related deaths fell back to pre-pandemic levels, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

Pregnancy-related deaths have fallen to pre-pandemic levels, new US data says

FILE - A single room, fully dedicated maternity room in a hospital maternity ward in Mississippi is seen on Oct. 11, 2012. In 2023, U.S. pregnancy-related deaths fell back to pre-pandemic levels, according to data released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday, May 2, 2024. (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

May 2, 2024, 8:20am Health

U.S. pregnancy-related deaths have fallen back to pre-pandemic levels, new government data suggests. Read story

Bottles of alcohol sit on shelves at a bar in Houston. Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods starting in the 2010s have thrown cold water on that.

New research finds no alcohol a path to better health

Bottles of alcohol sit on shelves at a bar in Houston. Moderate drinking was once thought to have benefits for the heart, but better research methods starting in the 2010s have thrown cold water on that.

May 1, 2024, 5:57am Health

It’s wine time. Beer Thirty. Happy hour. Five o’clock somewhere. Read story