February 5, 2024, 8:08am Health
The Federal Trade Commission has challenged the validity of over 100 drug product patents, focusing on devices used to deliver medicines, like inhalers and autoinjectors, in an effort to increase competition and potentially lower some prices. Read story
February 5, 2024, 7:51am Business
Social media CEOs got grilled by Senate lawmakers this week in an emotional and often heated hearing about the dangers their platforms pose to children — sexual predators, videos encouraging suicide and glorifying eating disorders, bullying and addictive features, just to name a few. Read story
February 5, 2024, 6:00am Health
The average teen today spends one-quarter of the day with their eyes locked on a screen. Read story
February 4, 2024, 5:59am Health
If you or someone you know may be experiencing a mental health crisis, contact the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline by dialing or texting “988.” To reach the Native and Strong Lifeline, call “988” and press 4. Read story
February 3, 2024, 6:02am Health
Nearly every time Lewis and Clark junior Olive Pete uses the restroom for its intended purpose, a peer is in the next stall vaping, blowing clouds of nicotine-laced tutti frutti vapor. Read story
February 3, 2024, 6:00am Health
The hotel on the outskirts of town looks a lot like lodging one can find on any American highway. Over the years it has been a Holiday Inn and a Days Inn. The sign outside now bears the brand of a new, growing chain. One that promises a lot more… Read story
February 2, 2024, 8:10am Health
Some patients treated at 14 hospitals in Washington, including in Richland, Olympia, Walla Walla and Spokane, will share in $157.8 million in refunds and debt relief under an agreement reached by the state with Providence. Read story
February 1, 2024, 2:21pm Health Free
Washington moved a step closer Thursday to requiring all public, charter and tribal schools in the state to stock medication that can reverse opioid overdoses. Read story
February 1, 2024, 2:17pm Health
The latest versions of COVID-19 vaccines were 54% effective at preventing symptomatic infection in adults, according to the first U.S. study to assess how well the shots work. Read story
February 1, 2024, 10:47am Business
An advertising agency that helped develop marketing campaigns for OxyContin and other prescription painkillers has agreed to pay U.S. states $350 million rather than face the possibility of trials over its role in the opioid crisis, attorneys general said Thursday. Read story
