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“It allows you to really make a difference”: Clark College launches new surgical technology program

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

Vancouver-based Absci to send first drug to clinical trials in what CEO calls a ‘huge milestone’

March 19, 2025, 2:50pm Business

Absci is preparing to send its first internally developed drug to clinical trials. Read story

Texas measles outbreak expected to last for months, though vaccinations are up from last year

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

Some patients worry about affording their medications as insurers cut coverage for weight-loss drugs

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

Cats, either domestic or wild, are especially susceptible to the deadly bird flu virus.

Oregon man sues Wild Coast Pet Foods after his cat dies from bird flu

Cats, either domestic or wild, are especially susceptible to the deadly bird flu virus.

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

Health insurers made $41B the year COVID-19 landed. Why are they raising rates now?

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

Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast Cancer Awareness

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.

Medicaid recipients struggle to find mental health care. Looming cuts could make it harder

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

Researchers find a hint at how to delay Alzheimer’s symptoms. Now they have to prove it

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

FILE - A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.

Flu deaths rise as anti-vaccine disinformation takes root

FILE - A flu vaccine is displayed at a pharmacy in New York, on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024.

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

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he visits the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Monday, March 17, 2025, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Richard Grenell, president of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees listen.

Trump’s policies threaten his 2019 vow to end HIV, experts say

President Donald Trump talks with reporters as he visits the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Monday, March 17, 2025, as White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt and Richard Grenell, president of the Kennedy Center Board of Trustees listen.

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