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In this photo released by the Cambodia Ministry of Health, a Cambodia animal health officer, right, and a military police officer place posters about awareness of H5N1 virus threats in hopes of educating villagers to take care of their health, in Prey Veng eastern province Cambodia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country's first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said.

Bird flu kills 11-year-old girl in Cambodia, officials say

In this photo released by the Cambodia Ministry of Health, a Cambodia animal health officer, right, and a military police officer place posters about awareness of H5N1 virus threats in hopes of educating villagers to take care of their health, in Prey Veng eastern province Cambodia, Thursday, Feb. 23, 2023. An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country's first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said.

February 23, 2023, 8:45am Health

An 11-year-old girl in Cambodia has died from bird flu in the country’s first known human H5N1 infection since 2014, health officials said. Read story

FILE - Milk is displayed at a grocery store in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don't pretend to be from dairy animals - and that U.S. consumers aren't confused by the difference.

No cow needed?: Oat and soy can be called milk, FDA proposes

FILE - Milk is displayed at a grocery store in Philadelphia, Tuesday, July 12, 2022. Food and Drug Administration officials issued guidance that says plant-based beverages don't pretend to be from dairy animals - and that U.S. consumers aren't confused by the difference.

February 22, 2023, 1:49pm Business

Soy, oat, almond and other drinks that bill themselves as “milk” can keep using the name, according to draft federal rules released Wednesday. Read story

FILE - A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed unusually well in a U.S. winter flu season that has already dissipated, health officials said during a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccines meeting Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark J.

Flu vaccine worked well in season that faded fast, CDC says

FILE - A flu vaccine is readied at the L.A. Care and Blue Shield of California Promise Health Plans' Community Resource Center where they were offering members and the public free flu and COVID-19 vaccines Friday, Oct. 28, 2022, in Lynwood, Calif. Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed unusually well in a U.S. winter flu season that has already dissipated, health officials said during a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention vaccines meeting Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023. (AP Photo/Mark J.

February 22, 2023, 12:33pm Health

Early estimates suggest the flu vaccine performed unusually well in a U.S. winter flu season that has already dissipated. Read story

Pandemic amplified eating disorders

February 21, 2023, 6:02am Health

For almost two decades — from high school to when she was a 35-year-old graduate student — Alicia Castaneda Hatfield struggled with an eating disorder without ever talking with a doctor about it. Read story

‘Dusseldorf patient’ is 5th person cured of HIV

February 20, 2023, 4:11pm Health

A man referred to only as “the Dusseldorf patient” has become the fifth person confirmed to be cured of HIV. Read story

FILE - Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf testifies via video during a House Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hybrid hearing on the nationwide baby formula shortage on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. Califf has spent much of his last year on the job warning that growing "distortions and half-truths" surrounding vaccines and other medical products are a major driver of sickness and death in America.

FDA’s own reputation could be restraining its misinfo fight

FILE - Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Robert Califf testifies via video during a House Commerce Oversight and Investigations subcommittee hybrid hearing on the nationwide baby formula shortage on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Washington. Califf has spent much of his last year on the job warning that growing "distortions and half-truths" surrounding vaccines and other medical products are a major driver of sickness and death in America.

February 20, 2023, 7:43am Health

The government agency responsible for tracking down contaminated peanut butter and defective pacemakers is taking on a new health hazard: online misinformation. Read story

The city of Vancouver Westside Wastewater Treatment Plant, seen in July 2019, is one of two local wastewater treatment facilities collecting samples of wastewater to send for testing for signs of the coronavirus.

Wastewater testing isn’t just for COVID: Washington expands efforts

The city of Vancouver Westside Wastewater Treatment Plant, seen in July 2019, is one of two local wastewater treatment facilities collecting samples of wastewater to send for testing for signs of the coronavirus.

February 20, 2023, 7:40am Health

It’s not a new practice to use our sewage to search for clues about public health trends. But after almost two years of building up Washington’s growing wastewater surveillance system, state epidemiologists are ready to branch out further. Read story

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf March 16 at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Allen G.

How a Texas ruling on abortion pills would affect Washington

Boxes of the drug mifepristone sit on a shelf March 16 at the West Alabama Women's Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala. (Allen G.

February 20, 2023, 6:04am Health

As a federal judge in Texas weighs a lawsuit that could ban a commonly used abortion drug nationwide, advocates in Washington say that medication abortion will remain accessible in the state regardless of the outcome in court, but with a different, slightly less effective approach. Read story

Tim Corbin, left, the administrator of Truman Lake Manor, passes through the hallway of the nursing home on Feb. 14, 2023, in Lowry, Mo. The facility was cited in December for a violation of the federal vaccination requirement for health care workers but subsequently came into compliance. Corbin believes it's time for the vaccination mandate to end. (AP Photo/David A.

Health care vaccine mandate remains as some push for an end

Tim Corbin, left, the administrator of Truman Lake Manor, passes through the hallway of the nursing home on Feb. 14, 2023, in Lowry, Mo. The facility was cited in December for a violation of the federal vaccination requirement for health care workers but subsequently came into compliance. Corbin believes it's time for the vaccination mandate to end. (AP Photo/David A.

February 19, 2023, 12:29pm Health

At Truman Lake Manor in rural Missouri, every day begins the same way for every employee entering the nursing home's doors — with a swab up the nose, a swirl of testing solution and a brief wait to see whether a thin red line appears indicating a positive COVID-19 case. Read story

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington.

Fetterman case highlights common stroke, depression link

Sen. John Fetterman, D-Pa., arrives for President Joe Biden's State of the Union address to a joint session of Congress at the Capitol, Tuesday, Feb. 7, 2023, in Washington.

February 19, 2023, 11:10am Health

Pennsylvania Democratic Sen. John Fetterman is seeking treatment for severe depression months after having a stroke. Read story