Organ centers to transplant patients: Get a COVID shot or move down on waitlist
A Colorado kidney transplant candidate who was bumped to inactive status for failing to get a COVID-19 vaccine has become the most public example of...
A daily pill to treat COVID-19 could be just months away, scientists say
A Seattle couple have a role in developing what could be the world’s next chance to thwart COVID-19: a short-term regimen of daily pills that...
‘Tainted’ blood? COVID vaccine skeptics request transfusions only from unvaccinated donors
The nation’s roiling tensions over COVID-19 vaccines have spilled into another arena: lifesaving blood transfusions. Some who are skeptical of the vaccines are demanding blood...
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...