March 20, 2025, 6:07am Clark County Health
This fall, Clark College will launch a new surgical technology program, the first of its kind in Southwest Washington. Read story
March 19, 2025, 2:50pm Business Updated 2 days ago
Absci is preparing to send its first internally developed drug to clinical trials. Read story
March 21, 2025, 11:47am Health
As measles cases in West Texas are still on the rise two months after the outbreak began, local public health officials say they expect the virus to keep spreading for at least several more months and that the official case number is likely an undercount. Read story
March 21, 2025, 8:04am Health
PHILADELPHIA -- Mara Nissley has a rare disorder that causes her brain to swell as if she has a tumor. Losing weight can help treat the condition, called pseudotumor cerebri. Last year, her doctor recommended she start a popular weight-loss drug in the hopes of alleviating her debilitating headaches and… Read story
March 21, 2025, 7:41am Health
An Oregon man is suing after he says the pet food he fed his cat was contaminated and led to her death. Read story
March 21, 2025, 7:34am Business
Claire Lindell had to wait months for treatment when doctors in April 2020 were forced to suddenly cancel the little girl’s spine surgery. Read story
Each year, more than 200,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer, including thousands of women in Washington. In honor of their fight — and as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month — The Columbian published this collection of stories about the women who have received breast cancer diagnoses, the science and technological advances for treating them and the community that supports them.
March 20, 2025, 9:13am Health
Charmeka Newton, a psychologist who has her own practice in Lansing, Michigan, is passionate about serving Black and Hispanic patients. They’re often looking for therapists who will understand how their race, ethnicity and culture may affect them, she said, and she helps provide that care. Read story
March 20, 2025, 9:11am Health
An experimental treatment appears to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms in some people genetically destined to get the disease in their 40s or 50s, according to new findings from ongoing research now caught up in Trump administration funding delays. Read story
March 19, 2025, 8:28am Health
Americans are facing the highest death toll from influenza since 2018, just as more people become vulnerable because of growing vaccine skepticism taking hold in statehouses and the Trump administration. Read story
March 19, 2025, 8:26am Health
During his 2019 State of the Union address, President Donald Trump laid out an ambitious goal: end HIV in the United States by 2030. Read story