Read about medical advances and research in Seattle and worldwide. Topics include treatments; surgery; diseases such as Zika; studies of the human brain, heart and cancer; mental health; drugs and vaccinations; and Medicare, the Veterans Administration (VA) and the Affordable Care Act, aka Obamacare. Institutions include the Hutch, UW Medicine, Harborview, Virginia Mason, Group Health and Swedish.
The work is part of a quest to help people with spinal-cord injuries regain function, and specialists say while it’s only been attempted in a...
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The board this week unanimously approved a proposal to call homelessness a public health disaster and advise local governments to do whatever is necessary to...
The clinic is being held in Key Arena through Sunday. Service providers don't ask for identification or legal status, while organizers provide translators and free...
FORT MORGAN, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado meatpacker is recalling more than 132,000 pounds (60,000 kilograms) of ground beef after a suspected E. coli outbreak...
Nationally, opioid-related deaths stood at more than 130 per day last year, according to federal data.