December 9, 2019, 2:33pm Health
BOSTON — Pete Frates, a former college baseball player whose battle with Lou Gehrig’s disease helped inspire the ALS ice bucket challenge that has raised more than $200 million worldwide, died Monday. He was 34. Read story
December 9, 2019, 11:58am Health
New results from the largest long-term study of brain development and children’s health raise provocative questions about obesity and brain function. Read story
December 9, 2019, 6:05am Health
A large study led by government scientists is renewing concern about whether chemicals used to dye and straighten hair raise the risk of cancer. Read story
December 9, 2019, 6:04am Clark County Health
When Musse Barclay moved from Ethiopia to Clark County in 2008 to live with his adopted family, there were growing pains in his new environment. Read story
December 9, 2019, 6:03am Health
Researchers at Oregon State University are one step closer to curbing osteoarthritis after making a breakthrough by providing the first ever complete look at what’s happening to joints with the condition at the cellular level. Read story
December 9, 2019, 6:03am Health
Here’s your opportunity to treat friends and loved ones with the kinds of considerate items they aren’t likely to buy for themselves. Read story
December 8, 2019, 6:00am Clark County Health
Clark County Dental Society President Keith Collins is trying to create greater medical record transparency and collaboration in Southwest Washington. Read story
December 6, 2019, 10:14am Health
NEW YORK — The U.S. winter flu season is off to its earliest start in more than 15 years. Read story
December 5, 2019, 10:45am Health
WASHINGTON — The House will hold a showdown vote next week on Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s bill empowering Medicare to negotiate prices for costly prescription drugs, her office announced Thursday. Read story
December 5, 2019, 10:43am Health
SAN DIEGO — A company that claims to have the first drug to slow mental decline from Alzheimer’s disease made its case to scientists Thursday, disclosing more results that may help explain why one study of the experimental medicine succeeded and another failed. Read story