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A sample of granular activated carbon, used to remove PFAS from water, sits on display during a tour of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Cincinnati. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose restrictions on harmful "forever chemicals" in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable, but experts say removing them will cost billions. (AP Photo/Joshua A.

EPA to limit toxic ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

A sample of granular activated carbon, used to remove PFAS from water, sits on display during a tour of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Center For Environmental Solutions and Emergency Response, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2023, in Cincinnati. The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to propose restrictions on harmful "forever chemicals" in drinking water after finding they are dangerous in amounts so small as to be undetectable, but experts say removing them will cost billions. (AP Photo/Joshua A.

March 14, 2023, 9:00am Health

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday proposed the first federal limits on harmful “forever chemicals” in drinking water, a long-awaited protection the agency said will save thousands of lives and prevent serious illnesses, including cancer. Read story

Novo Nordisk plans price cuts for several insulins

March 14, 2023, 7:40am Business

Novo Nordisk will start slashing some U.S. insulin prices up to 75% next year, following a path set earlier this month by rival Eli Lilly. Read story

Schools struggle with lead in water while awaiting federal relief

March 12, 2023, 6:01am Health

Water samples taken from the drinking fountain the station replaced had a lead concentration of 10 parts per billion — twice Montana’s legal limit for schools of 5 parts per billion for the toxic metal. Read story

Children from kindergarten to fifth grade arrive for in-person learning at Sutherland Elementary School in Chicago on March 1, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Jose M.

Study: 1 in 4 parents misled others about their child’s COVID status earlier in the pandemic

Children from kindergarten to fifth grade arrive for in-person learning at Sutherland Elementary School in Chicago on March 1, 2021, during the COVID-19 pandemic. (Jose M.

March 12, 2023, 6:00am Health

Roughly 1 in 4 American parents lied to or misled others about their child’s COVID-19 status at the height of the pandemic, according to a study published Monday in JAMA Network Open, a journal of the Chicago-based American Medical Association. Read story

Information blackout shrouds new reports of deaths, injuries and abuse at Montana State Hospital

March 12, 2023, 6:00am Health

Jennifer Mitchell remembered getting a call nearly two years ago that her 69-year-old husband, Bill, had crashed his car and had been committed to the Montana State Hospital, the state-run psychiatric hospital for adults about 20 miles from their home in Butte. Read story

Pandemic 3 years later: Has the COVID-19 virus won?

March 10, 2023, 8:09am Health

On the third anniversary of the COVID-19 pandemic, the virus is still spreading and the death toll is nearing 7 million worldwide. Yet most people have resumed their normal lives, thanks to a wall of immunity built from infections and vaccines. Read story

FILE - This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19. A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab? Now, the U.S. Department of Energy has assessed with "low confidence" that it began with a lab leak although others in the U.S. intelligence community disagree. (Hannah A.

House votes to declassify info about origins of COVID-19

FILE - This 2020 electron microscope image made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows SARS-CoV-2 virus particles, which cause COVID-19. A crucial question has eluded governments and health agencies since the COVID-19 pandemic began: Did the virus originate in animals or leak from a Chinese lab? Now, the U.S. Department of Energy has assessed with "low confidence" that it began with a lab leak although others in the U.S. intelligence community disagree. (Hannah A.

March 10, 2023, 8:08am Health

The House voted unanimously on Friday to declassify U.S. intelligence information about the origins of COVID-19, a sweeping show of bipartisan support near the third anniversary of the start of the deadly pandemic. Read story

Tim Custer receives his first dose of  the COVID-19 vaccine at Lumen Field Event Center's COVID-19 vaccination site on March 13, 2021. (Matt M.

Three years in, 5 Washingtonians a day still dying of COVID

Tim Custer receives his first dose of  the COVID-19 vaccine at Lumen Field Event Center's COVID-19 vaccination site on March 13, 2021. (Matt M.

March 10, 2023, 6:00am Health

It’s been three years since the people of Washington hunkered down in the face of a COVID-19 outbreak that upended society and ushered in debates about responding to the virus that continue today. And while people have returned to in-person work and social life and public-health restrictions have been lifted,… Read story

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. U.S. women getting mammograms will soon receive information about their breast density, which can sometimes make cancer harder to spot, under government rules finalized Thursday, March 9, 2023.

U.S. requires new info on breast density with all mammograms

FILE - A radiologist uses a magnifying glass to check mammograms for breast cancer in Los Angeles, May 6, 2010. U.S. women getting mammograms will soon receive information about their breast density, which can sometimes make cancer harder to spot, under government rules finalized Thursday, March 9, 2023.

March 9, 2023, 9:46am Breast Cancer

All U.S. women getting mammograms will soon receive information about their breast density, which can sometimes make cancer harder to spot. Read story

President Joe Biden, left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talk to reporters after a lunch with Senate Democrats on his upcoming budget and political agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J.

Biden to seek more than $2.8B from Congress for cancer fight

President Joe Biden, left, and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., talk to reporters after a lunch with Senate Democrats on his upcoming budget and political agenda, at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, March 2, 2023. (AP Photo/J.

March 9, 2023, 9:43am Health

President Joe Biden is asking Congress for more than $2.8 billion in the federal budget he’s sending to Capitol Hill on Thursday to help advance his cancer-fighting goals. Read story