October 13, 2023, 7:20am Business
Unions representing 75,000 health care workers who recently held a strike against industry giant Kaiser Permanente over wages and staffing shortages have reached a tentative agreement with the company. Read story
October 12, 2023, 7:35am Health
A recently closed hospice center in Longview will reopen later this year through a new partnership between PeaceHealth and Community Home Health & Hospice. Read story
October 12, 2023, 7:31am Health
A multiyear investigation into conditions for transgender people in prisons in Washington has led to a proposed settlement agreement with the state that advocates say is among the strongest in the country for gender-affirming medical care in state prisons. Read story
October 11, 2023, 7:29am Business
Walgreens has named a new CEO as pharmacy staff walked off the job this week over concerns that working conditions are putting employees and patients at risk. Read story
October 10, 2023, 7:17pm Health
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle on Tuesday called for social media platforms to adopt better content-moderation policies and other fixes, saying modifications need to be made to addictive apps that can harm young people’s mental health. Read story
October 9, 2023, 5:56am Health
St. Louis’ largest health system, BJC HealthCare, plans to merge with Kansas City’s second-largest, Saint Luke’s Health System, uniting more than 28 hospitals on both sides of Missouri by the end of this year. Read story
October 8, 2023, 6:02am Health
Experts, industry groups and patient advocates are closely watching the next steps in the Biden administration’s fledgling program to negotiate Medicare prices for high-cost drugs after all the selected drugmakers signed on to participate. Read story
October 8, 2023, 6:00am Health
On a hot July morning, customers at the Dollar General along a two-lane highway northwest of Nashville didn’t seem to notice signs of the chain store’s foray into mobile health care, particularly in rural America. Read story
October 8, 2023, 6:00am Health
Max Gruver spent the early morning hours of Sept. 14, 2017, heavily intoxicated and passed out on a couch inside the Phi Delta Theta chapter house at Louisiana State University. Read story
October 7, 2023, 6:00am Health
Pinpoint pupils. Discoloration. Blue or gray lips. Clammy skin. Slow breathing. Loss of consciousness. Read story
