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7 take-aways from expert panel on the fentanyl crisis in King County

October 25, 2023, 7:31am Health

Experts on the science, treatment and experience of using fentanyl shared insights last week about how King County and Seattle are reacting to the crisis and could improve. Read story

Bagged, precut onions linked to salmonella outbreak that has sickened 73 people in 22 states

October 24, 2023, 5:52pm Business

An outbreak of salmonella poisoning linked to bagged, precut onions has sickened at least 73 people in 22 states, including 15 who were hospitalized, U.S. health officials said Tuesday. Read story

Products are displayed in the Open the Joy booth at the 2023 Toy Fair, in New York's Javits Center, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. While still in its early phase, a growing number of toy marketers are embracing MESH -- or mental, emotional and social health -- as a designation for toys that teach kids skills like how to adjust to new challenges, resolve conflict, advocate for themselves, or solve problems.

Amid a mental health crisis, toy industry takes on a new role: building resilience

Products are displayed in the Open the Joy booth at the 2023 Toy Fair, in New York's Javits Center, Monday, Oct. 2, 2023. While still in its early phase, a growing number of toy marketers are embracing MESH -- or mental, emotional and social health -- as a designation for toys that teach kids skills like how to adjust to new challenges, resolve conflict, advocate for themselves, or solve problems.

October 22, 2023, 6:00am Business

As more children emerge from the pandemic grappling with mental health issues, their parents are seeking ways for them to build emotional resilience. Read story

Debbie King works out the adductor muscles in her thighs using a flexible band on Sept. 26 at her home in Homosassa, Florida. Her right leg had to be amputated above the knee on Aug. 17 after she contracted an infection from Vibrio vulnificus while boating in the Gulf of Mexico off Homosassa four days earlier. (Douglas R.

Rare ‘flesh-eating’ bacterium spreads north as oceans warm

Debbie King works out the adductor muscles in her thighs using a flexible band on Sept. 26 at her home in Homosassa, Florida. Her right leg had to be amputated above the knee on Aug. 17 after she contracted an infection from Vibrio vulnificus while boating in the Gulf of Mexico off Homosassa four days earlier. (Douglas R.

October 22, 2023, 6:00am Health

Debbie King barely gave it a second thought when she scraped her right shin climbing onto her friend’s pontoon for a day of boating in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 13. Read story

FILE - In this May 14, 2009, file photo, made from video, then-Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, left, shakes hands with Zackery Lystedt, right, in Olympia, Wash., after she signed the "Zackery Lystedt law", what is considered the nation's toughest law regulating when high school athletes can return to games after having sustained a concussion. It is named after Lystedt, who suffered a life-threatening brain injury in 2006 after he returned to play football following a concussion.

Laws and increased communication have led to schools taking concussions more seriously

FILE - In this May 14, 2009, file photo, made from video, then-Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire, left, shakes hands with Zackery Lystedt, right, in Olympia, Wash., after she signed the "Zackery Lystedt law", what is considered the nation's toughest law regulating when high school athletes can return to games after having sustained a concussion. It is named after Lystedt, who suffered a life-threatening brain injury in 2006 after he returned to play football following a concussion.

October 22, 2023, 6:00am Health

It wasn’t long ago that football pros gained cheers for delivering — or receiving — repeated, head-rattling tackles. Read story

Brady Hill gets a hug from his mother Cathrine after breakfast at their home in Meridian, Idaho, June 19, 2023. Brady survived a rare brain cancer as a baby, but requires round the clock care. Brady's sister Misha watches. Families of severely disabled children across the country are worried about the future of crucial Medicaid payments they started receiving to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As 2024 nears, advocates push for caregiving as campaign issue

Brady Hill gets a hug from his mother Cathrine after breakfast at their home in Meridian, Idaho, June 19, 2023. Brady survived a rare brain cancer as a baby, but requires round the clock care. Brady's sister Misha watches. Families of severely disabled children across the country are worried about the future of crucial Medicaid payments they started receiving to provide care during the COVID-19 pandemic.

October 22, 2023, 6:00am Health

Family caregivers are seeking to make their plight a 2024 campaign issue after the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the lack of support for the more than 53 million people who provide unpaid care to parents, spouses, friends and disabled children. Read story

‘This is me. This is my life’: Twelve years after his traumatic brain injury, a former Priest River high school football player reflects on the life-altering path it paved

October 22, 2023, 5:52am Health

Bobby Clark still loves football, especially the Seahawks. Read story

A law enforcement member of New York Sheriff's Joint Compliance Task Force makes a record of confiscated smoking products Sept. 27 during raid of an unlicensed marijuana shop in New York.

Communities can’t recycle or trash disposable e-cigarettes – so what happens to them?

A law enforcement member of New York Sheriff's Joint Compliance Task Force makes a record of confiscated smoking products Sept. 27 during raid of an unlicensed marijuana shop in New York.

October 21, 2023, 6:04am Business

With the growing popularity of disposable e-cigarettes, communities across the U.S. are confronting a new vaping problem: how to safely get rid of millions of small, battery-powered devices that are considered hazardous waste. Read story

U.S. soldiers take part in a drill at a military training field in Pocheon on March 19, 2023. Obesity rates among active-duty servicemembers have more than doubled since 2012.

Obesity a growing problem in military

U.S. soldiers take part in a drill at a military training field in Pocheon on March 19, 2023. Obesity rates among active-duty servicemembers have more than doubled since 2012.

October 21, 2023, 6:03am Health

Obesity rates among active-duty servicemembers doubled in the past decade, and antiquated policies and incomplete data have complicated efforts to combat the trend, according to a new report from the American Security Project. Read story

Nurse Jodi Bobbitt helps a youngster at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Va.

A third of schools don’t have a nurse. Here’s why that’s a problem

Nurse Jodi Bobbitt helps a youngster at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Va.

October 21, 2023, 6:00am Health

Jodi Bobbitt, the school nurse at William Ramsay Elementary in Alexandria, Va., is always ready to see children with a wide range of injuries and illnesses. One day during the first week of school, the parade started before the first bell when a little girl walked in with red, irritated… Read story