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Per these guidelines, generally kids should not start riding in the front seat until age 13.

When can my child ditch the booster seat and sit up front? What Washington state law says

July 14, 2024, 6:02am Health

Growing up comes with many important milestones. Childhood is full of firsts, like the first lost tooth, first sleepover and first time riding a bike without training wheels. Read story

How to combat loneliness in the workplace

July 13, 2024, 6:07am Business

Twice each month, executives at the dating app company Hinge gather for a team meeting. But rather than dive into discussions about metrics or revenue, they begin by simply talking. Read story

An empty bench is seen outside the Friendship Bench offices in Harare, Zimbabwe, Saturday, May 4, 2024. In Zimbabwe, talk therapy involving park benches and a network of grandmothers has become a saving grace for people with mental health issues. Now the concept is being adopted in parts of the United States and elsewhere.

Zimbabwe mental health therapy being adopted in U.S.

July 13, 2024, 6:04am Health

After her son, the family’s shining light and only breadwinner, was arrested last year, Tambudzai Tembo went into meltdown. In Zimbabwe, where clinical mental health services are scarce, her chances of getting professional help were next to zero. She contemplated suicide. Read story

FILE - Temperature and humidity are monitored in a medicine cabinet at a medical center in California on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way — by amplifying the side effects of many common medications. Hot weather, too, can damage medicines such as insulin that require refrigeration. Inhalers can explode. Epinephrine injectors such as EpiPens can malfunction. Meds delivered in the mail can deteriorate.

Extreme heat, some medicines don’t mix

July 13, 2024, 6:04am Health

Extreme heat can raise the danger of heat-related illnesses and threaten health in a more subtle way — by amplifying the side effects of many common medications. Read story

Thousands of Oregon hospital patients may have been exposed to infectious diseases

July 11, 2024, 7:26pm Health

More than 2,400 patients at hospitals around Portland, Oregon, may have been exposed to infectious diseases such as hepatitis B and C, as well as HIV, because of an anesthesiologist who may not have followed infection control practices, officials said. Read story

Support for legal abortion has risen since Supreme Court eliminated protections, AP-NORC poll finds

Demonstrators stand outside the Supreme Court on Thursday, June 27, 2024, in Washington. The Supreme Court cleared the way Thursday for Idaho hospitals to provide emergency abortions for now in a procedural ruling that left key questions unanswered and could mean the issue ends up before the conservative-majority court again soon.

July 9, 2024, 8:23am Health

A solid majority of Americans oppose a federal abortion ban as a rising number support access to abortions for any reason, a new poll finds, highlighting a politically perilous situation for candidates who oppose abortion rights as the November election draws closer. Read story

Closing of rural hospitals leaves towns with unhealthy real estate

July 7, 2024, 5:45am Health

In March 2021, this town of about 2,000 residents in the hills of east Tennessee lost its hospital, a 54-bed acute care facility. Campbell County, where Jellico is located, ranks 90th of Tennessee’s 95 counties in health outcomes and has a poverty rate almost double the national average, so losing… Read story