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EPHRATA — When a suspected case of mumps was reported and later confirmed in a migrant farmworker community near Mattawa in mid-April, employees with the Grant County Health District sprang into action.
Dear Mayo Clinic: I was just diagnosed with a cataract, but it's not bothering me at all. Is it a good idea to have cataract surgery now, or can I wait? What is the recovery from this surgery like?
Sales of purported brain-health supplements such as fish oil and jellyfish are expected to reach $5.8 billion by 2023, but in a report released recently, an AARP panel of brain experts called them a huge waste of money for healthy seniors seeking to avoid or reverse dementia.
In 2010, just a few years before his book “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” was published and became a bestseller, Dr. Atul Gawande wrote in the New Yorker:
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Frequent headaches can interfere with your daily life. But healthy lifestyle choices can help you head off the pain. Start with the basics, including diet, exercise and relaxation.
Ready or not, ticks are out. Lyme disease is the most common tick-borne illness, but it’s not the only concern, says Dr. Bobbi Pritt, a parasitic diseases expert at Mayo Clinic.
PHILADELPHIA — A federal tax on soda could benefit the public good, according to an economic analysis released this week.
SPOKANE — Spring flowers can get a bad rap when it comes to the season of itchy, watery eyes and exacerbated asthma, but biologists from Eastern Washington University and Washington State University say it’s mostly wind pollinators to blame for allergy season. Unfortunately, wind pollinators…
”Fruit has carbs? I had no idea,” a stunned patient told me recently.
Some mornings it might feel like you can’t get enough of it, but a new study suggests too much coffee can be harmful.
Drinking water contaminated with even moderate levels of arsenic may lead to harmful thickening of the heart’s main chamber walls, a new U.S. study suggests.
It’s a typical Thursday at Cascade Medical, and Nursing Director DeAnna Griggs is charging ahead, cradling a folder and her coffee mug, to her next appointment —an infection control meeting about a new partnership with University of Washington.
SEATTLE — A universal flu vaccine that immunizes someone for a lifetime. Smart proteins that can identify cancerous cells. Nanomaterial proteins that self-assemble and could be used for solar energy.
NEW YORK — Since the 1980s, the cochlear implant has helped bring hearing to hundreds of thousands of people, but a new international effort aims to develop a new type of implant that will produce a keener, more natural form of hearing.
LONDON — Blood pressure and stroke risk rise steadily the more alcohol people drink, and previous claims that one or two drinks a day might protect against stroke are not true, according to the results of a major genetic study.
Kids with school attendance or truancy problems might be suffering from anxiety, a research review suggests.
That nifty new health app you downloaded to your phone to keep track of your meds might be sharing your information with a host of unrelated companies, some of which have nothing to do with healthcare, a new study finds.
Total knee replacement is increasingly being performed in younger people, and new research suggests younger patients have higher complication rates.
WENATCHEE — Caroline David’s sister Donna Taylor doesn’t like a lot of public attention, but she agreed to be placed in “jail” for her sister’s lung transplant fundraiser.
SEATTLE — If it all works out, a 74-year-old professor at the University of Washington will hit the jackpot with something that, in a few years, you may be ordering from Amazon.
Women who gain more weight than recommended while pregnant may increase their chances for serious complications at delivery, a study of more than a half-million births in New York City suggests.
Older adults who walk their dogs on a leash have been breaking bones at an increasing rate, with women and hip bones most at risk, researchers say.
Healthy older adults who have been obese for years may be at higher risk of developing dementia than their peers who aren't overweight, research from the UK suggests.
WENATCHEE — State Attorney General Bob Ferguson has filed a lawsuit challenging the Trump Administration’s “gag rule” that impacts federal funding for reproductive health care and family planning services.
WENATCHEE — Chrissy Dunham hasn't had soda in a year. She used to always eat fast food — it was cheap, quick and easy — but can't remember the last time she did.
WENATCHEE — Two Confluence Health officials received awards for their leadership in healthcare.
OLYMPIA — In a 57-40 vote, the Washington state House of Representatives passed a bill that would eliminate the philosophical or personal objection used to exempt children from receiving the vaccines required to attend school in Washington.
More young men and women are binge-drinking into their mid- and late-20s today than a generation ago, increasing their risk of accidental injuries, deaths and a variety of chronic illnesses, researchers say.
It's no secret ultra-processed foods can be detrimental to your health, but they can also increase your risk of early death, according to a new report.
Why do women tend to stay "mentally sharp" in their later years? According to researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine, it may be that women's brains shrink slower with age compared to men's brains.
Perhaps you are one of those peppy people who spring into action with the sunrise.
The steady stream of holiday cookies and treats may have slowed, but for millions of Americans, the appetite for high-fat, sodium-laden sweets continues. Making the switch from highly processed junk food to healthier whole foods can be challenging. Kate Zeratsky, a Mayo Clinic registered die…
Kids may be more likely to develop depression and anxiety when their parents are regular drinkers, even when neither parent drinks enough to be considered an alcoholic, a Norwegian study suggests.
A new study from Penn Nursing suggests that, if you want to lose weight and keep it off in the new year, you might want to think about cutting back on drinking.
A proposed law requested by State Attorney General Bob Ferguson and the Department of Health would raise the minimum legal age of sales for tobacco and vapor products from 18 to 21.
In 2009, Lt. Jen Vaughn was at war — with herself. Or so it seemed to the then-32-year-old Naval officer.
WENATCHEE — Confluence Health is increasing the minimum wage of its employees to $15 an hour starting Jan. 4.
Middle-aged men who eat lots of fruits and vegetables may be lowering their odds of cognitive problems as they get on in years, compared to peers who don't consume these foods very often, a U.S. study suggests.
SEATTLE — When a 69-year-old Seattle woman underwent brain surgery earlier this year at Swedish Medical Center, her doctors were stumped.
Sleep disorders are more frequently diagnosed in men, but women with the same problems may be at greater risk of health problems than previously thought.
At a time when immigration is a hot-button issue, the American health care system is highly dependent on professionals born in other countries, an analysis of U.S. census data shows.
People are known to walk, talk and eat while sleeping. Now, there is sleep texting.
LONDON — The spread of polio must still be classified as a public health emergency because, while progress has been made towards wiping out the disease, that progress is fragile, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday.
A web-based tool can let a man with prostate cancer see how thousands of other men in his situation have chosen to be treated, which may help him better understand his own options, a U.S. study suggests.
The popularity of yoga is booming in the United States — among children.
Those claims that cold-brew coffee will cause less heartburn and is healthier than hot brew? They may be exaggerated.
Next time you stagger into the 24-hour diner in the wee hours of the morning and order the biscuits and gravy breakfast, consider this new research finding: At roughly that hour, the most basic operations of the human body throttle back their caloric needs by about 10 percent compared to the…
