December 13, 2023, 9:54am Health
The Supreme Court agreed on Wednesday to take up a dispute over a medication used in the most common method of abortion in the United States, its first abortion case since it overturned Roe v. Wade last year. Read story
December 12, 2023, 10:20am Health
A pregnant woman in Kentucky who filed a lawsuit demanding the right to an abortion has learned her embryo no longer has cardiac activity, her attorneys said Tuesday. Read story
December 12, 2023, 9:50am Health
Over the past decade, health insurance premiums for Washington workers covered through their employers rose 49 percent while the costs of individual plans more than doubled. Read story
December 11, 2023, 3:02pm Health
A federal program that protects the health and wellbeing of commercial fishermen should be expanded to include substance use disorder and worker fatigue, a group of lawmakers from New England and Alaska said. Read story
December 11, 2023, 11:58am Health
Renowned Chinese doctor and activist Gao Yaojie who exposed the AIDS virus epidemic in rural China in the 1990s died Sunday at the age of 95 at her home in the United States. Read story
December 11, 2023, 10:21am Health
Decades ago, someone’s grandmother was exposed to a toxic pesticide that was later banned. A Washington State University professor’s research suggests that person’s grandchild may be suffering the consequences of that environmental exposure. Read story
December 11, 2023, 6:02am Health Free
OLYMPIA – Eighty-six-year-old Helga Teske thinks a lot these days about all the things she still wants to teach her son. Read story
December 10, 2023, 6:05am Health
Former President Donald Trump often seems proud to advertise his administration’s record on speedily developing COVID-19 vaccines. Read story
December 10, 2023, 6:05am Health
LOS ANGELES -- For her 17th birthday, Jeramie Naya Vives Osorio’s family showered her with gifts: a dozen pink roses, a stack of Beard Papa’s cream puffs, a Strawberry Sweet cake from the Korean bakery Tous les Jours and a small silver necklace from Tiffany. Read story
December 10, 2023, 5:38am Health
In the year since the Supreme Court outlawed the national right to an abortion, 18 states have implemented abortion bans that specify that mental health or suicidality do not qualify as a health-related exception for the woman — a deviation that’s occurring despite growing national momentum to treat physical and… Read story
