Health

Ice cubes were all over Victoria Neumiller’s body when she awoke from a fentanyl overdose near the 7-Eleven on Division Street five years ago. Her friends, who often used with her, had brought her back to life using the only method they could at the time.

The Washington state health board shot down a proposal Thursday to require greater reporting of diseased monkeys used for research.

Louise van der Weyden is a dog person. But as a scientist who studies cancer in animals, she has turned her attention to cats in recent years.

Idaho has one of the highest rates of uninsured children younger than 6 across the country, according to a new report. The report, released Monday from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, found that in 2024, nearly 8% of Idaho children younger than 6 were uninsured, the fifth-highest rate across the U.S. That represented an increase from about 7,900 uninsured young Idaho ...

When moving into a mobile home community in the months after her husband’s death, Cathy Tordale was not thinking about the water.

In response to abrupt and politicized changes to federal vaccine policy, concerned Coloradans have taken several steps to shore up support for vaccine science.

It may feel like allergy season will never end.

Unusually high hantavirus levels were found in mice across the Palouse, according to a recent Washington State University study.

Nick Epley was commuting to work at the University of Chicago when he looked across the train and wondered: Why are all these people sitting elbow to elbow ignoring each other?

Ebola is spreading faster than responders can track it in eastern Congo, where health workers managed to follow up with barely one in five identified contacts in a single day. Authorities in the Democratic Republic of Congo reported 83 confirmed infections, 746 suspected cases and 1,603 identified contacts as of May 21, according to the health ministry. Yet health workers were able to follow ...

GENEVA – The World Health Organization has raised the risk of the Bundibugyo strain of Ebola turning into a national outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo to "very high".

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Researchers at the University of California, Irvine believe a new public health study they’re helping to run – the first of its size to focus solely on Asian Americans – will help unravel some mysterious and troubling new trends linking race and cancer. Over the next four years, UCI researchers hope to recruit 1,800 Asian Americans living in Orange and Los Angeles counties ...

Erin Brockovich hopes Spokane protects its water.

More than five years after being fired at the height of the pandemic, Dr. Bob Lutz is being paid $1.65 million by the Spokane Regional Health District.

This year’s Lilac Festival parade will follow a new downtown route that is about half as long due to new city rules designed to save on the cost of security and other services.

Research has long shown that meditation influences brain function, but exactly when changes begin after starting – and how they evolve with continued meditation – has been less clear. A recent study suggests even a few minutes of the practice can positively affect your brain.

Six years ago, scenes of an infected cruise ship were one of the earliest signs of a worldwide pandemic. History is not likely to be repeated with a recent ship overrun with hantavirus.