Public health

Ninth grader Andy Mereckis, 15, in the Bellevue Big Picture School, is leading his school-based project, “Vaccine Selfies,” photographing Katherine Legros on Saturday

This is at the vaccine clinic at Sammamish High.

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March 24, 2021 at 6:00 am

Bellevue 9th grader sets out with a camera and a mission: to show ‘a light at the end of this dark time’ VIEW

Here's why a Bellevue Big Picture School 9th-grader is compiling photos and video footage of the district's vaccination efforts.

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A patient holds a vial of insulin during a news conference outside the Olde Walkersville Pharmacy, Sunday, July 28, 2019, in Windsor, Ont. Democratic presidential candidate, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and a busload of insulin patients stopped in Windsor to purchase the drug to highlight the high costs of the insulin in the United States. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

January 2, 2021 at 6:36 am

New Washington state law now caps monthly insulin copay at $100

A state law took effect Jan. 1 that limits co-pays to $100 per 30-day supply, for Washington residents who need insulin to control diabetes.

December 13, 2019 at 1:00 am

Flu Season Is Here, and It’s Targeting Your Kids

(Bloomberg) -- The flu is out in force. And so far this season, it's been hitting children the hardest.Influenza is a wily virus—it's almost impossible to...

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November 13, 2019 at 10:22 am

Deadly superbugs pose greater threat than previously estimated

Drug-resistant germs sicken about 3 million people every year in the United States and kill about 35,000, representing a much larger public health threat than...

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FILE — A Juul vape device in New York, April 4, 2018. A day after Alex Azar, the health and human services secretary, said the Food and Drug Administration would draft a plan within weeks that would remove flavored e-cigarettes and nicotine pods from the market, there were already signs that some companies were considering legal challenges or lobbying efforts to keep two flavors safe — mint and menthol. (Caroline Tompkins/The New York Times) XNYT232

October 17, 2019 at 10:04 am

Juul halts sales of fruit, dessert flavors for e-cigarettes

WASHINGTON (AP) — Juul Labs stopped selling fruit and dessert flavors Thursday, acknowledging the public's "lack of trust" in the vaping industry. The voluntary step...

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In this March 16, 2017 photo, sugar tax stickers are posted by sweetened beverages at the IGA supermarket in the Port Richmond neighborhood of Philadelphia. Less than three months into Philadelphia’s new tax on sweetened drinks, the stakes have escalated: Beverage makers say the measure is hurting sales so much they need to cut jobs, while city officials say the moves are a ploy to get the tax struck down. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)

September 4, 2019 at 9:34 am

It doesn’t matter if it’s sugary or diet: New study links all soda to an early death

The study found that consumption of two or more glasses of artificially sweetened soft drinks a day was positively associated with deaths from circulatory diseases....