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WHO: Artificial sweeteners have no weight-loss benefit, may raise health risks

May 15, 2023, 1:45pm Health

The World Health Organization has come out against the use of non-sugar sweeteners (NSS) as a means to control weight or limit noncommunicable sickness. Read story

Fentanyl fuels string of deadly weekend overdoses in Portland

May 15, 2023, 1:28pm Health

A series of suspected drug overdoses left at least eight people dead over the weekend in Portland, Oregon, according to the city’s police bureau. Read story

Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake.

Eastern State Hospital remains accredited, seeks to boost staff

Eastern State Hospital in Medical Lake.

May 15, 2023, 7:41am Health

Eastern State Hospital, the second largest psychiatric facility in Washington state, is working on hiring more staff and stabilizing the hospital after a challenging past year that threatened its federal accreditation. Read story

Soon after a patient leaves First Step Resource Center, a clinic tailored to treat survivors of sexual assault, Jacqueline Towarnicki prepares the examination room in case she gets a call that someone else needs to see a sexual assault nurse examiner.

On the night shift with a sexual assault nurse examiner

Soon after a patient leaves First Step Resource Center, a clinic tailored to treat survivors of sexual assault, Jacqueline Towarnicki prepares the examination room in case she gets a call that someone else needs to see a sexual assault nurse examiner.

May 15, 2023, 6:05am Health

Jacqueline Towarnicki got a text as she finished her day shift at a local clinic. She had a new case, a patient covered in bruises who couldn’t remember how the injuries got there. Read story

This 1,200-mile sea kayak journey is taking wounded veterans from despair to new adventures

May 15, 2023, 6:02am Health

British Lance Corporal Cayle Royce was climbing out of an irrigation ditch in Afghanistan when he stepped on a pressure activated 20-kilogram mine, throwing him into the air. When he landed, he was missing his legs, a part of his left hand and his reason to live. Read story

Abby Tow, a Sexual Health Peer Educator at the University of Oklahoma, displays some of the sexual health pamphlets available at the health center on campus, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Norman, Okla. Tow said she wonders if helicopter parenting has played a role in what she calls the "baby-fication of our generation".

Sex? Sexual intercourse? Neither? Teens weigh in on evolving definitions — and habits

Abby Tow, a Sexual Health Peer Educator at the University of Oklahoma, displays some of the sexual health pamphlets available at the health center on campus, Wednesday, May 10, 2023, in Norman, Okla. Tow said she wonders if helicopter parenting has played a role in what she calls the "baby-fication of our generation".

May 15, 2023, 6:02am Entertainment

Situationships. “Sneaky links.” The “talking stage,” the flirtatious getting-to-know-you phase — typically done via text — that can lead to a hookup. Read story

Co-founder Tanner Mariani looks over bags of marijuana buds that fill the showroom of the Portland Cannabis Market in Portland, Ore., on March 31, 2023. Oregon, which has huge stockpiles of marijuana, should prepare for the U.S. government eventually legalizing the drug and position the state as a national leader in the industry, state auditors said Friday, April 28, 2023.

Legal pot is more potent than ever — and still largely unregulated

Co-founder Tanner Mariani looks over bags of marijuana buds that fill the showroom of the Portland Cannabis Market in Portland, Ore., on March 31, 2023. Oregon, which has huge stockpiles of marijuana, should prepare for the U.S. government eventually legalizing the drug and position the state as a national leader in the industry, state auditors said Friday, April 28, 2023.

May 14, 2023, 6:00am Health

Marijuana and other products containing THC, the plant’s main psychoactive ingredient, have grown more potent and more dangerous as legalization has made them more widely available. Read story

In this file photo, a bag of assorted pills and prescription drugs dropped off for disposal is displayed during the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Apr. 24, 2021, in Los Angeles. (Patrick T.

‘No child should be dying’: Fentanyl-related deaths among kids rising, Yale study says

In this file photo, a bag of assorted pills and prescription drugs dropped off for disposal is displayed during the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 20th National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Apr. 24, 2021, in Los Angeles. (Patrick T.

May 14, 2023, 6:00am Health

Fentanyl-related deaths among children increased more than 30-fold between 2013 and 2021, illustrating the opioid crisis’ unrelenting impact across the United States, according to a study by the Yale School of Medicine. Read story