October 30, 2023, 5:18pm Health
Kaiser Permanente management and its Washington staffers have agreed on a tentative contract after months of negotiations, avoiding the strike that was set to start at the beginning of November if a deal hadn’t been reached. Read story
October 30, 2023, 4:19pm Business
United States health regulators are warning consumers not to use more than two dozen varieties of over-the-counter eyedrops because of the risk of infections that could lead to blindness. Read story
October 30, 2023, 9:07am Health
State and local health departments across the U.S found out in June they’d be losing the final two years of a $1 billion investment to strengthen the ranks of people who track and try to prevent sexually transmitted diseases — especially the rapid increase of syphilis cases. Read story
October 30, 2023, 9:03am Health
An East Bay pilot’s midair meltdown last week in which he tried to shut off the jet engines and later told police he’d been depressed and recently took magic mushrooms may prove a setback for the quest to make California the third state to legalize psychedelic drugs. Read story
October 30, 2023, 7:29am Health
A local burger chain that was at the center of a fatal Listeria outbreak this year has returned to serving milkshakes using a replacement machine from one of its other restaurants. Read story
October 30, 2023, 6:03am Health
Practitioners burning sacred herbs for patients seeking addiction treatment. Tribal sweat lodges where Native Americans can meditate and purify their bodies. Gardens where rehab residents can grow their own medicinal plants. Read story
October 29, 2023, 6:00am Health
Since losing her first pregnancy four months ago, 32-year-old Lulu has struggled to return to her body’s old rhythms. Lulu, who asked to be identified by her first name to protect her privacy, bled for six full weeks after her miscarriage and hasn’t had a normal menstrual cycle since. Read story
October 29, 2023, 6:00am Health
Policing expenses mount quickly: $25,000 for a law enforcement conference about fentanyl in Colorado; $18,000 for technology to unlock cellphones in Southington, Connecticut; $2,900 for surveillance cameras and to train officers and canines in New Lexington, Ohio. And in other communities around the country, hundreds of thousands for vehicles, body… Read story
October 29, 2023, 6:00am Health
Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital. Read story
October 28, 2023, 6:04am Health
When a new University of Washington study revealed that bus and train riders were regularly being exposed to traces of fentanyl and methamphetamine, the reach of the Northwest opioid crisis became a bit more real to people who weren’t previously aware of its ubiquity. Read story
