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Emily Jacobs, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks about The Maternal Brain, during Empowering Women Through Brain Health Conference Program at Center for Brain Health, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Dallas.

Advances in women’s brain health needed to close gender gap in neuroscience, doctors say

Emily Jacobs, PhD, University of California, Santa Barbara, speaks about The Maternal Brain, during Empowering Women Through Brain Health Conference Program at Center for Brain Health, Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Dallas.

March 9, 2025, 5:43am Health

Historically, the male body has been the default in scientific studies. Lab rats? Male. Test subjects? Men. This stark gender gap was a key focus at the Empowering Women through BrainHealth conference last week. Read story

The Vancouver Clinic (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

‘The proposed cuts would not spare anyone in’ Washington; Clark County health care providers concerned about Medicaid cuts

The Vancouver Clinic (Amanda Cowan/The Columbian files)

March 8, 2025, 6:11am Clark County Health

The local impact of a Republican-led proposal to potentially cut Medicaid remains unclear, as some of Clark County’s largest health care providers are still unsure of the long-term consequences. Read story

Eggs are displayed for sale in a Manhattan grocery store on Feb. 25, 2025, in New York City.

RFK Jr. wants to make food safer. Trump wants to make it cheaper. Can we have both?

Eggs are displayed for sale in a Manhattan grocery store on Feb. 25, 2025, in New York City.

March 8, 2025, 6:00am Health

To hear Robert F. Kennedy Jr. tell it, making America healthy again means making American food healthy again. Read story

A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

Should babies get a ‘bonus dose’ of the measles vaccine? Doctors say it depends

A vial of the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine is on display at the Lubbock Health Department Wednesday, Feb. 26, 2025, in Lubbock, Texas.

March 7, 2025, 9:03am Health

Like many anxious parents, Beth Spektor spent the last few weeks fretting over how to protect her infant daughter from the first deadly measles outbreak to hit the U.S. in a decade. Read story

A sign with the CDC logo is displayed at the entrance to the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta, on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

CDC firings undermine public health work far beyond Washington

A sign with the CDC logo is displayed at the entrance to the agency’s headquarters in Atlanta, on Sunday, March 2, 2025.

March 6, 2025, 7:43am Health

The Trump administration’s sudden firing of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention employees gutted training programs across the nation whose participants bolstered the workforce of state and local public health departments that for decades have been starved of resources. Read story

Lab workers at Johns Hopkins University work in Richard Huganir’s lab in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 26, 2025.

Jobs lost in every state and lifesaving cures not discovered: Possible impacts of research cuts

Lab workers at Johns Hopkins University work in Richard Huganir’s lab in Baltimore, Md., on Feb. 26, 2025.

March 6, 2025, 7:43am Health

Rural cancer patients may miss out on cutting-edge treatments in Utah. Therapies for intellectual disorders could stall in Maryland. Red states and blue states alike are poised to lose jobs in research labs and the local businesses serving them. Read story

Vancouver-based nonprofit Thrive2Survive awarded $10,000 by Molina Healthcare

March 5, 2025, 5:29pm Clark County Health

Thrive2Survive, a Vancouver-based homeless nonprofit, was recently awarded $10,000 by Molina Healthcare of Washington. The grant is meant to continue Thrive2Survive’s mission to provide resources for Clark County’s homeless residents. Read story

This photo provided by the National Institutes of Health shows the James H. Shannon Building on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., in 2015.

Federal judge blocks drastic funding cuts to medical research

This photo provided by the National Institutes of Health shows the James H. Shannon Building on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md., in 2015.

March 5, 2025, 3:47pm Health

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from drastically cutting medical research funding that many scientists say will endanger patients and cost jobs. Read story