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More and more workers must balance career with caregiving. A startup called Wellthy is helping stressed-out staffers at companies like Hilton and Best Buy.

How companies are helping employees stuck between work and caring for aging parents

More and more workers must balance career with caregiving. A startup called Wellthy is helping stressed-out staffers at companies like Hilton and Best Buy.

October 28, 2023, 6:00am Business

Ellen Kessler was visiting her mother in Florida last year when things took a bad turn. Read story

FILE - Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 treatments millions of have taken for free from the federal government will enter the private market next week with a hefty price tag. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is setting the price for a five-day treatment of Paxlovid at $1,390, but Americans can still access the pills at no cost, for now. Millions of free, taxpayer-funded courses of the pills will remain at pharmacies, hospitals and doctor's offices across the country, U.S. Health and Human Services officials said Friday, Oct. 27, 2023.

COVID-19 treatments to enter the market with a hefty price tag

FILE - Doses of the anti-viral drug Paxlovid are displayed in New York, Aug. 1, 2022. The COVID-19 treatments millions of have taken for free from the federal government will enter the private market next week with a hefty price tag. Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer is setting the price for a five-day treatment of Paxlovid at $1,390, but Americans can still access the pills at no cost, for now. Millions of free, taxpayer-funded courses of the pills will remain at pharmacies, hospitals and doctor's offices across the country, U.S. Health and Human Services officials said Friday, Oct. 27, 2023.

October 27, 2023, 1:16pm Health

The COVID-19 treatments millions of Americans have taken for free from the federal government will enter the private market next week with a hefty price tag. Read story

Brianna Hayes, center, poses with her older sister Darci Hayes, left, and mother Sharon Hayes, right, in June 2019 after graduating from her graduate school program at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash. Sharon Hayes, of Hauser, Idaho, sued her former fertility doctor in Spokane on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, saying that he secretly used his own sperm to inseminate her when she became pregnant with her second daughter 34 years ago - information Brianna Hayes said she discovered after taking an at-home DNA test.

An Idaho woman sues her fertility doctor, says he used his own sperm to impregnate her 34 years ago

Brianna Hayes, center, poses with her older sister Darci Hayes, left, and mother Sharon Hayes, right, in June 2019 after graduating from her graduate school program at Eastern Washington University in Cheney, Wash. Sharon Hayes, of Hauser, Idaho, sued her former fertility doctor in Spokane on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023, saying that he secretly used his own sperm to inseminate her when she became pregnant with her second daughter 34 years ago - information Brianna Hayes said she discovered after taking an at-home DNA test.

October 27, 2023, 7:00am Health

An Idaho woman is suing her one-time fertility doctor, saying he secretly used his own sperm to inseminate her 34 years ago — the latest in a string of such cases brought as at-home DNA sampling enables people to learn more about their ancestry. Read story

FDA warns about giving probiotics to preterm infants

October 26, 2023, 5:12pm Health

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning health care providers and the public about injuries and at least one death in premature infants who were given probiotic products in the hospital. Read story

FILE - A Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine is seen at a drugstore in Cypress, Texas, Sept. 20, 2023. More than a month after federal officials recommended a new version of the COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot. The numbers -- which one expert called "abysmal" -- were presented Thursday, Oct. 26, at a meeting held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

2% of kids and 7% of adults have gotten the new COVID shots, U.S. data show

FILE - A Moderna Spikevax COVID-19 vaccine is seen at a drugstore in Cypress, Texas, Sept. 20, 2023. More than a month after federal officials recommended a new version of the COVID-19 vaccines, 7% of U.S. adults and 2% of children have gotten a shot. The numbers -- which one expert called "abysmal" -- were presented Thursday, Oct. 26, at a meeting held by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

October 26, 2023, 4:40pm Health

A month after federal officials recommended new versions of COVID-19 vaccines, 7 percent of U.S. adults and 2 percent of children have gotten a shot. Read story

FILE - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view made through an airplane window in Washington, Jan. 26, 2020. U.S. officials say the number of suicides in the U.S. military and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year.

The number of military suicides dipped in 2022 as the Pentagon works on new prevention programs

FILE - The Pentagon is seen in this aerial view made through an airplane window in Washington, Jan. 26, 2020. U.S. officials say the number of suicides in the U.S. military and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year.

October 26, 2023, 7:50am Health

The number of suicides among U.S. military members and their families dipped slightly in 2022, compared with the previous year, as the Defense Department tries to build prevention and treatment programs to address what has been a steadily growing problem over the past decade, The Associated Press has learned. Read story

Abortions up after post-Roe restrictions

October 25, 2023, 7:07pm Health

The total number of abortions provided in the U.S. rose slightly in the 12 months after states began implementing bans on them throughout pregnancy, a new survey finds. Read story

FILE - A Jackson, Miss., resident receives a Pfizer booster shot from a nurse at a vaccination site Feb. 8, 2022.  Pfizer is asking the Food and Drug Administration to expand use of its updated COVID-19 booster shot to children ages 5 to 11, Monday, Sept. 26. Already 4.4 million Americans have received one of the updated boosters since they rolled out earlier this month for anyone 12 and older.  (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

What to know about the updated COVID booster shots for Washington kids

FILE - A Jackson, Miss., resident receives a Pfizer booster shot from a nurse at a vaccination site Feb. 8, 2022.  Pfizer is asking the Food and Drug Administration to expand use of its updated COVID-19 booster shot to children ages 5 to 11, Monday, Sept. 26. Already 4.4 million Americans have received one of the updated boosters since they rolled out earlier this month for anyone 12 and older.  (AP Photo/Rogelio V.

October 25, 2023, 5:44pm Health

Health officials say Washington families who were struggling to find pediatric COVID-19 booster shots now should be able to make appointments. Read story

Former President George W. Bush speaks during an event to mark the 20th anniversary year of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Feb. 24, 2023. As billions of dollars for a global HIV/AIDS program credited with saving millions of lives remains in limbo, the George W. Bush Institute is urging the U.S. Congress to keep money flowing for it. In a letter sent to Congress on Oct. 25, the former Republican president's institute pleaded with Congress to keep funding PEPFAR. (AP Photo/J.

Billions for life-saving AIDS program need to continue, George W. Bush Institute tells Congress

Former President George W. Bush speaks during an event to mark the 20th anniversary year of the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, Feb. 24, 2023. As billions of dollars for a global HIV/AIDS program credited with saving millions of lives remains in limbo, the George W. Bush Institute is urging the U.S. Congress to keep money flowing for it. In a letter sent to Congress on Oct. 25, the former Republican president's institute pleaded with Congress to keep funding PEPFAR. (AP Photo/J.

October 25, 2023, 2:26pm Health

As billions of dollars for a global HIV/AIDS program credited with saving millions of lives remains in limbo, the George W. Bush Institute is urging the U.S. Congress to keep money flowing for it. Read story

Food insecurity shot up last year with inflation and the end of pandemic-era aid, a new report says

October 25, 2023, 2:26pm Health

An estimated 17 million households reported problems finding enough food in 2022 — a sharp jump from 2021 when boosted government aid helped ease the pandemic-induced economic shutdown. Read story