April 21, 2024, 5:57am Health
A 17-year-old boy with shaggy blond hair stepped onto the scale at Tri-River Family Health Center in Uxbridge, Massachusetts. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:14am Clark County Health
It was during cleanup of an encampment in east Vancouver two years ago that the city’s homeless response manager realized a dangerous shift had occurred. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:13am Clark County Health Subscriber Exclusive
Healthful exercise can require serious effort and focus, like maintaining yoga’s difficult boat pose, which requires balancing on your bottom while holding up your legs and torso rigidly, forming a human V. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:00am Health
Abortion opponents have maneuvered in courthouses for years to end access to reproductive health care. In Arizona last week, a win for the anti-abortion camp caused political blowback for Republican candidates in the state and beyond. Read story
April 20, 2024, 6:00am Health
In Matthew Roach’s two years as vital statistics manager for the Arizona Department of Health Services, and 10 years previously in its epidemiology program, he has witnessed a trend in mortality rates that has rural health experts worried. Read story
April 20, 2024, 5:58am Clark County Health
The Washington State Department of Health suspended certified nursing assistant David Floyd Potter’s license following allegations of sexual misconduct involving two patients. Read story
April 19, 2024, 1:52pm Health
One woman miscarried in the lobby restroom of a Texas emergency room as front desk staff refused to admit her. Another woman learned that her fetus had no heartbeat at a Florida hospital, the day after a security guard turned her away from the facility. And in North Carolina, a… Read story
April 19, 2024, 7:44am Business
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday designated two forever chemicals that have been used in cookware, carpets and firefighting foams as hazardous substances, an action intended to ensure quicker cleanup of the toxic compounds and require industries and others responsible for contamination to pay for its removal. Read story