June 26, 2022, 6:15am Health
Black, Indigenous and people of color giving birth were more likely than white people to experience health providers coercing them to go along with procedures they did not want, or to have their lack of explicit consent disregarded altogether, according to a new study. Read story
June 26, 2022, 6:05am Clark County Health Subscriber Exclusive
In the days that followed the May 24 mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, a communal grief washed across the United States. Read story
June 26, 2022, 6:02am Health
In Rochester, New York, Diane Coleman has relied on a machine to help her stay alive, but she worries that it might be slowly undermining her health. Read story
June 26, 2022, 6:00am Health
Until last year, Georgia’s Medicaid coverage for new moms with low incomes lasted 60 days. Read story
June 25, 2022, 12:51pm Business
Pfizer announced Saturday that tweaking its COVID-19 vaccine to better target the omicron variant is safe and works — just days before regulators debate whether to offer Americans updated booster shots this fall. Read story
June 25, 2022, 6:01am Clark County Health
Clark-Cowlitz Fire Rescue honored five La Center High School employees Thursday for jumping into action to save a student’s life after he suffered cardiac arrest on the morning of May 26. Read story
June 24, 2022, 8:21pm Clark County Health
Despite the Supreme Court’s decision Friday to overturn Roe v. Wade, Washington and Oregon still have some of the strongest abortion protections in the country, and abortion services are still available at Planned Parenthood clinics across the two states. Read story
June 24, 2022, 10:40am Health
The 17 states that ban abortion after 20 weeks make exceptions to protect the life or health of the woman. But doctors and reproductive health advocates worry such exceptions are so vague or narrow that abortion providers are unlikely to invoke them — especially if they fear they could be… Read story