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.
A federal judge in Yakima on Thursday blocked new Trump administration rules that could cut off federal funding for health-care providers who refer patients for an abortion....
LOS ANGELES (AP) — More than 200 students and staff at two Los Angeles universities have been placed under quarantine because they may have been...
The issue became a sensation in the past week when Sen. Maureen Walsh, R-College Place, suggested nurses in small hospitals with relatively few patients don't...
The Washington attorney general's office said Thursday that Judge Stanley Bastian in Yakima granted the injunction following argument in a case brought by the state...