July 1, 2019, 6:01am Clark County Health
Sierra Bell knocks on the door of a patient’s room at PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center in Vancouver. Read story
June 24, 2019, 6:05am Health
You’re an adult with multiple decades to your credit, and you’ve got it all together — or look as if you do. The fact that you never have a kind word for yourself when you look in the mirror? Well, who does? Your eating and exercise obsessions, secret binges and… Read story
June 18, 2019, 9:32am Health
Preschoolers on government food aid have grown a little less pudgy, a U.S. study found, offering fresh evidence that previous signs of declining obesity rates weren’t a fluke. Read story
June 17, 2019, 8:27am Health
Frozen red raspberries from a Washington farm are being recalled across the western U.S. Read story
June 14, 2019, 10:40am Health
Chips, soda and frozen pizzas tend to be full of salt, sugar and fat, but now scientists are trying to understand if there’s something else about such processed foods that might be bad for us. Read story
June 10, 2019, 10:21am Health
A seed developer from the Netherlands credited with introducing high quality disease-resistant vegetable seeds to more than 60 countries including the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia was awarded the 2019 World Food Prize on Monday. Read story
June 9, 2019, 6:03am Food
The words we use matter. Our choice of language not only mirrors our current way of thinking, it also has the power to shape our attitudes and behaviors over time. That’s why so many food and nutrition professionals cringe at much of the conversation around food and health today. Seemingly… Read story
June 3, 2019, 10:00am Health
The Food and Drug Administration’s first broad testing of food for a worrisome class of nonstick, stain-resistant industrial compounds found substantial levels in some grocery store meats and seafood and in off-the-shelf chocolate cake, according to unreleased findings FDA researchers presented at a scientific conference in Europe. Read story
May 28, 2019, 6:02am Clark County News
Montzerrat Pantoja can be a little bit of a pest when it comes to her family’s diet. Read story
May 20, 2019, 6:05am Health
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention caused quite a stir recently with its consumer warning on raw chicken. Read story