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Fresh success: $5 match helps low-income shoppers at farmers markets | June 17

A program designed to help stretch the value of food stamps at farmers markets is up and running again this year after a successful 2012 launch.

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• By Marissa Harshman

Kortum, CEO of PeaceHealth's Columbia Network, to retire | June 17

Joe Kortum, who led Southwest Washington Medical Center for eight years and who served as CEO of the Columbia Network of PeaceHealth for two years, announces he will retire

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• By Aaron Corvin

PeaceHealth, Regence sign new two-year contract | June 17

PeaceHealth and Regence have reached an agreement on a new two-year contract.

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• By Marissa Harshman

Go Greek with your yogurt? | June 17

Greek yogurt is everywhere, and now represents nearly a third of the yogurt market. But how different is the Greek version from regular yogurt? That depends.

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• By Marissa Harshman

Mighty marathoner on a mission | June 13

This Sunday, 3-year-old Micah Snell will finish his fifth marathon -- his third in just three months.

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• By Marissa Harshman

American Medical Association votes to declare obesity a disease | June 19

WASHINGTON — The American Medical Association voted to declare obesity a disease, a move that effectively defines 78 million American adults and 12 million children as having a medical condition requiring treatment.

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• By Melissa Healy And Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times

Medicare: Cost-saving changes coming for diabetics (Q&A) | June 18

WASHINGTON — Medicare begins a major change next month that could save older diabetics money and time when they buy crucial supplies to test their blood sugar.

To ease shortage of organs, grow them in a lab? | June 17

NEW YORK — By the time 10-year-old Sarah Murnaghan finally got a lung transplant last week, she'd been waiting for months, and her parents had sued to give her a better shot at surgery.

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• By Malcolm Ritter, Associated Press

BioWatch faces congressional hearing this week | June 17

WASHINGTON — A decade ago, then-Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge oversaw the start of BioWatch, the nationwide system designed to detect airborne releases of anthrax or other biological weapons.

Supreme Court rules for generic drugs, against 'pay for delay' | June 17

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that brand-name drugmakers can be sued for violating the antitrust laws if they make a deal that pays a potential competitor to put off selling a generic version.

In a fast-food first, Dunkin' Donuts adds gluten-free | June 19

Dunkin' Donuts is poised to beat McDonald's and Starbucks in introducing the fast-food industry's first gluten-free pastries.

Fresh success: $5 match helps low-income shoppers at farmers markets | June 17

A program designed to help stretch the value of food stamps at farmers markets is up and running again this year after a successful 2012 launch.

• Share
• Discuss
• By Marissa Harshman

Go Greek with your yogurt? | June 17

Greek yogurt is everywhere, and now represents nearly a third of the yogurt market. But how different is the Greek version from regular yogurt? That depends.

• Share
• Discuss
• By Marissa Harshman

Study: Soda size limit cuts calories most in kids, the overweight | June 17

WASHINGTON — A day after New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's Health Department went to court to defend its proposed cap on the sale of super-sized sodas, a published study offered evidence that Bloomberg's plan would reduce average calorie intake among those most likely to buy large drinks, and would have its greatest effect on overweight and obese kids.

Hepatitis A linked to frozen berries sickens 87 | June 11

WASHINGTON — The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says an outbreak of hepatitis A linked to a frozen berry mix sold at Costco has grown to 87 people with illnesses in eight states.