August 30, 2023, 1:22pm Health Free
Assaults on staff by patients surged last year at one of Washington’s state-owned psychiatric hospitals, although just two individuals were responsible for nearly 20 percent of the attacks, according to a new report. Read story
August 29, 2023, 4:14pm Health
Health officials are investigating an outbreak of E. coli food poisoning among students at the University of Arkansas, with dozens reporting symptoms and five people needing treatment in the hospital. Read story
August 29, 2023, 7:38am Health
A company that provides oxygen equipment agreed to a $29 million settlement to resolve claims, brought by whistleblowers, that it was overbilling Medicare. It is the largest-ever health care fraud settlement in the Eastern District of Washington. Read story
August 29, 2023, 6:00am Health
Ask Alexa or Siri about the weather. But if you want to save someone’s life? Call 911 for that. Read story
August 28, 2023, 7:46am Health
Some of the most widely used drugs in the U.S. may be heading for lower prices under Medicare, a move that could save taxpayers billions of dollars and squeeze profits for big pharmaceutical companies. Read story
August 28, 2023, 7:43am Health
Brynn Schulte nearly died twice when she was a baby, at one point needing emergency surgery for massive bleeding in her brain. Read story
August 28, 2023, 7:25am Business
Santos Brizuela spent more than two decades laboring outdoors, persisting despite a bout of heatstroke while cutting sugarcane in Mexico and chronic laryngitis from repeated exposure to the hot sun while on various other jobs. Read story
August 28, 2023, 7:15am Health
Have you gotten a COVID vaccine booster within the past year? Read story
August 28, 2023, 6:02am Health
led by the state’s largest public medical system — have sued thousands of their patients since 2017, according to a new analysis that sheds additional light on the aggressive tactics U.S. hospitals routinely use to collect from people who fall behind on their bills. Read story
August 28, 2023, 6:02am Health
In early February 2020, Kirsten St. George and her team at New York state’s public health lab received a test developed by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to diagnose people infected with the new, rapidly spreading coronavirus. Read story
