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Clark County Health

Ben Dynes, a driver with Waste Connections, drops off a pink recycle bin in honor of breast cancer awareness at a home along Devine Road on Wednesday morning, Nov. 6, 2019.

Waste Connections makes special delivery with pink breast cancer awareness carts

November 7, 2019, 6:01am Clark County Health

Ben Dynes, a driver with Waste Connections, drops off a pink breast cancer awareness recycling cart at a home along Devine Road in Vancouver. Read story

Tiffany Kraff, left, and Keri Rivera, technicians at TMS NW, demonstrate the deep transcranial magnetic stimulation machine at TMS NW in Vancouver. TMS spurs electronic activity that stimulates areas of the brain that are underactive in people with depression.

Vancouver clinic uses magnetic fields to treat depression, OCD

November 5, 2019, 6:02am Clark County Health

Watching a person receive transcranial magnetic stimulation, or TMS, feels like viewing something from a science fiction movie. Read story

Saffron Smith, 2, looks up while yoga teacher Daniele Strawmyre helps her mother, Jennifer Smith, with a downward dog pose during a Ready Set Grow yoga class at the Slocum House in Esther Short Park on Saturday, October 26, 2019. Ready Set Grow is a yoga studio based in Portland and Vancouver.

Ready Set Grow offers prenatal, postpartum yoga in Vancouver

November 4, 2019, 6:03am Clark County Health

When Daniele Strawmyre, 45, gave birth to her first child about six years ago, it prompted all kinds of new anxieties and challenges. Read story

Mammography Technologist Aimee Lehartel, center, and Dr. Michael Morich explain how their new breast cancer biopsy machine works at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver. PeaceHealth purchased the machine in March, and Lehartel calls it "the newest, latest and greatest" technology available.

New biopsy table aids technicians and patients

October 28, 2019, 6:05am Breast Cancer

PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center has a new way to better detect cancer and serve its patients. Read story

Health exchange offers preview

October 28, 2019, 6:00am Clark County Health

Washington residents will have a little more time to digest individual marketplace insurance options for next year, thanks to a new feature being rolled out by the Washington Health Benefit Exchange. Read story

Ashley Eggleston, center, credits her three kids and three teenagers with saving her life after her heart stopped earlier this month. The teens called 911, started CPR and comforted her kids while first responders worked on her. From left: Owen Meyer, Emilee Tikka, Eggleston, Evan Meyer, Kate Nylund, Eva Sarkinin and Nora Meyer.

Passing teens help kids save Brush Prairie mom after her heart stopped

October 26, 2019, 6:01am Clark County Health

Ashley Eggleston was never shy to call her three children her angels, but a recent scare brought three new angels into her world. Read story

State joins effort to cut health disparities

October 22, 2019, 8:47pm Clark County Health

The Community Health Plan of Washington has joined with health care organizations from six other states in a collaboration aimed at creating new Medicaid models that reduce health disparities and increase what the group calls “equitable health.” Read story