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Washington becomes first state to ban lead-contaminated cookware

March 29, 2024, 5:43pm Health

Washington is the first state to ban the manufacture, distribution and sale of cookware contaminated with lead, following Gov. Jay Inslee’s approval of a bill that passed this legislative session. Read story

Minh Ha, assistive technology manager at the Perkins School for the Blind tries a LightSound device for the first time at the school&rsquo;s library in Watertown, Mass., on March 2, 2024. As eclipse watchers look to the skies in April 2024, new technology will allow people who are blind or visually impaired to hear and feel the celestial event.

Blind people can hear and feel April’s total solar eclipse with new technology

Minh Ha, assistive technology manager at the Perkins School for the Blind tries a LightSound device for the first time at the school&rsquo;s library in Watertown, Mass., on March 2, 2024. As eclipse watchers look to the skies in April 2024, new technology will allow people who are blind or visually impaired to hear and feel the celestial event.

March 29, 2024, 9:19am Clark County Health

While eclipse watchers look to the skies, people who are blind or visually impaired will be able to hear and feel the celestial event. Read story

Daybreak Youth Services is pictured in Brush Prairie in 2019. It's now closed.

State revokes credential of former Daybreak counselor charged with sexual misconduct with a minor

Daybreak Youth Services is pictured in Brush Prairie in 2019. It's now closed.

March 28, 2024, 2:10pm Clark County Health

State health officials suspended the provider credential for a former Daybreak Youth Services counselor charged in Clark County Superior Court with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor. Read story

This 2006 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which causes the disease tuberculosis. The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, according to a report released by the CDC on Thursday, March 28, 2024.

US tuberculosis cases were at the highest level in a decade in 2023

This 2006 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which causes the disease tuberculosis. The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, according to a report released by the CDC on Thursday, March 28, 2024.

March 28, 2024, 1:05pm Health

The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 were the highest in a decade, according to a new government report. Read story

Seattle Children’s gets $50 million donation for cancer research

March 28, 2024, 8:10am Health

Seattle Children’s Hospital received a $50 million donation from the William Lawrence & Blanche Hughes Foundation to further childhood cancer research and prevention, the hospital announced Thursday. Read story

Biden is announcing a new rule to protect consumers who purchase short-term health insurance plans

March 28, 2024, 8:00am Health

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new steps to protect consumers who buy short-term health insurance plans that critics say amount to junk. Read story

FILE - In this July 8, 2016, file photo, a pharmacist holds a package of EpiPen epinephrine auto-injectors, a Mylan product, in Sacramento, Calif. Mylan N.V. reports financial results on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.

New WA law caps the cost of inhalers and EpiPens

FILE - In this July 8, 2016, file photo, a pharmacist holds a package of EpiPen epinephrine auto-injectors, a Mylan product, in Sacramento, Calif. Mylan N.V. reports financial results on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.

March 28, 2024, 7:56am Health

A bill signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday will limit the cost of some lifesaving medicines, according to an announcement from Rep. Dave Zpaul, D-Oak Harbor, the bill’s sponsor. Read story

Hockinson High School students including Audrey Davis, 18, foreground right, distribute posters in the school's front office to advertise a fundraiser for period products for middle school students. The group hopes adding period products for younger girls will decrease anxiety for those who may not have access to them at home.

Fighting period poverty: Hockinson High School students fundraise for menstrual products at middle school

Hockinson High School students including Audrey Davis, 18, foreground right, distribute posters in the school's front office to advertise a fundraiser for period products for middle school students. The group hopes adding period products for younger girls will decrease anxiety for those who may not have access to them at home.

March 28, 2024, 6:09am Clark County Health

Six students at Hockinson High School are raising money to boost access to period products for middle school girls, an effort they hope will reduce the shame some feel around menstruation. Read story