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Food banks have had to throw away thousands of dollars worth of infant formula following a massive recall by Abbott Laboratories. Now their shelves are bare, and families who rely on their help to feed their babies are scrambling to find formula — and the funds to buy it.
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Gina Sequeira is a pediatrician and co-director of Seattle Children’s Gender Clinic. Sequeira says that she started working with trans kids because, as a young queer person, she had many bad interactions with doctors and wanted to be part of the solution.
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COVID-19Health officials in Washington state say residents will soon be able to order free at-home COVID-19 tests through a new state website.
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Seattle-based Bloodworks Northwest said it was down to about a one-day supply of both platelets and red blood cells.
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The collaboration between The Seattle Times Education Lab and King County Public Health’s Social Media Ambassadors and Soar youth programs highlights multicultural mental health services and explains exactly what would happen if a teen reaches out.
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As new information emerges about coronavirus and COVID-19, seemingly multiple times a day, we wanted to take a moment and go back over the basics. Good…
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So far this year, there have been only six cases of wild polio — and 21 cases of vaccine-derived polio, most of them in Syria.
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Many American women want to breast-feed — and try to. Only about half keep it up. It's like they've lost the instinct. One researcher thinks she's figured out why and how to get the instinct back.
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Many people with Alzheimer's suffer medical and mental health issues that have nothing to do with memory loss, including slow healing, incontinence, paranoia and depression.
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They claim about 100,000 lives a year. WHO has now put snakebites on its list of "neglected tropical diseases."
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Updated guidelines on mammograms from the nation's gynecologists are intended to incorporate recommendations from three other medical societies and consider women's preferences, too.
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A few decades ago, babies born with conditions such as congenital heart disease or cystic fibrosis often didn't survive past childhood. Now many live longer, but adult medicine has not kept pace.