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 Seattle/King County health department’s new window-placard grades reflect a given restaurant’s number of violations compared with its neighbors, not with the whole region’s establishments.
The King County Board of Health endorses supervised injection sites for drug users, a strategy to reduce overdose deaths. A final decision on the sites,...
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican governors who turned down billions in federal dollars from an expansion of Medicaid under President Barack Obama's health care...
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is among the first, and largest, donors to the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, which will develop and stockpile...
State Sen. Mark Miloscia, a Republican from Federal Way, has introduced a bill to ban safe-injection sites for heroin users in Washington state. The move...
The county’s new health grading system will rate restaurants on an aggregate score of four recent health inspections.