A chilling cure: Facing killer heat, Seattle-area ERs use body bags to save lives
Zipping heatstroke patients into ice-filled body bags worked so well it could become a go-to treatment in a world increasingly altered by climate change, said...
Thousands of young children lost parents to COVID. Where’s help for them? VIEW
In a nation where it's estimated that more than 46,000 children have lost one or both parents to COVID-19, survivors say finding help for bereaved...
Patients fend for themselves to access highly touted COVID-19 antibody treatments
Months after President Trump credited an experimental antibody therapy for his quick recovery from COVID-19 and even as drugmakers ramp up supplies, only a trickle...
Magic mushrooms for Washington patients? New push aims to speed psilocybin to those who are dying
A proposal in Washington state would use right-to-try laws to allow terminally ill patients access to psilocybin — the famed magic mushrooms of America’s psychedelic...
Lions and tigers and anteaters? U.S. scientists scan the menagerie for COVID-19
Across the country, veterinarians and other researchers are scouring the animal kingdom for signs of the coronavirus that causes COVID-19. At least 2,000 animals in...
Can ordinary COVID-19 patients get the Trump treatment? It’s OK to push for it, a Seattle-area man learned
It’s OK to ask and "be a little pushy," as one Seattle-area man found out when he ended up in a clinical trial of the...
Distrusting Trump, some states plan to vet COVID-19 vaccines themselves. Bad idea, say experts
As trust in the FDA wavers, several states have vowed to independently review any COVID-19 vaccine the agency authorizes. But health experts say such vetting...
Rural Oregon clinic takes world stage with COVID-19 vaccine trial, led by a doctor with a $10 million winery and château
Testing a vaccine to halt a global pandemic is a challenge like no other. “You take a big gasp and say, ‘Do we have the...