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Fighting period poverty: Hockinson High School students fundraise for menstrual products at middle school

March 28, 2024, 6:09am Clark County Health

Six students at Hockinson High School are raising money to boost access to period products for middle school girls, an effort they hope will reduce the shame some feel around… Read story

What the Supreme Court abortion pill case could mean for WA

March 27, 2024, 7:30am Health

As the country parsed U.S. Supreme Court justices’ questions in a case that could restrict access to abortion pills, local Planned Parenthood leaders and Democratic elected officials said Washington has… Read story

Daybreak Youth Services is pictured in Brush Prairie in 2019. It's now closed.

State revokes credential of former Daybreak counselor charged with sexual misconduct with a minor

Daybreak Youth Services is pictured in Brush Prairie in 2019. It's now closed.

March 28, 2024, 2:10pm Clark County Health

State health officials suspended the provider credential for a former Daybreak Youth Services counselor charged in Clark County Superior Court with first-degree sexual misconduct with a minor. Read story

This 2006 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which causes the disease tuberculosis. The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, according to a report released by the CDC on Thursday, March 28, 2024.

US tuberculosis cases were at the highest level in a decade in 2023

This 2006 electron microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria, which causes the disease tuberculosis. The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 was the highest in a decade, according to a report released by the CDC on Thursday, March 28, 2024.

March 28, 2024, 1:05pm Health

The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 were the highest in a decade, according to a new government report. Read story

Seattle Children’s gets $50 million donation for cancer research

March 28, 2024, 8:10am Health

Seattle Children’s Hospital received a $50 million donation from the William Lawrence & Blanche Hughes Foundation to further childhood cancer research and prevention, the hospital announced Thursday. Read story

Biden is announcing a new rule to protect consumers who purchase short-term health insurance plans

March 28, 2024, 8:00am Health

President Joe Biden on Thursday announced new steps to protect consumers who buy short-term health insurance plans that critics say amount to junk. Read story

Breast Cancer Awareness

Breast Cancer Awareness

Each year, more than 200,000 women in the U.S. are diagnosed with breast cancer, including thousands of women in Washington. In honor of their fight — and as part of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month — The Columbian published this collection of stories about the women who have received breast cancer diagnoses, the science and technological advances for treating them and the community that supports them.

FILE - In this July 8, 2016, file photo, a pharmacist holds a package of EpiPen epinephrine auto-injectors, a Mylan product, in Sacramento, Calif. Mylan N.V. reports financial results on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.

New WA law caps the cost of inhalers and EpiPens

FILE - In this July 8, 2016, file photo, a pharmacist holds a package of EpiPen epinephrine auto-injectors, a Mylan product, in Sacramento, Calif. Mylan N.V. reports financial results on Wednesday, Feb. 28, 2018.

March 28, 2024, 7:56am Health

A bill signed into law by Gov. Jay Inslee on Monday will limit the cost of some lifesaving medicines, according to an announcement from Rep. Dave Zpaul, D-Oak Harbor, the bill’s sponsor. Read story

Vancouver City Hall in downtown Vancouver.

Vancouver works to remove forever chemicals from water supply

Vancouver City Hall in downtown Vancouver.

March 27, 2024, 6:08am Clark County Health

The city of Vancouver this week took a step toward removing forever chemicals from the municipal water supply. Read story

A container of Narcan, or naloxone, sits on tree roots at a longstanding homeless encampment.

Southwest Washington cities OK interlocal agreement to form opioid abatement council

A container of Narcan, or naloxone, sits on tree roots at a longstanding homeless encampment.

March 27, 2024, 6:08am Clark County Health

The city of Vancouver will soon be able to tap into opioid settlement funds to help fight Southwest Washington’s opioid crisis. Read story

Tyler Clary, Vancouver water engineering program manager, discusses PFAS contamination in the Vancouver water supply at the 78th Street pumping facility in January.

What to know about PFAS or ‘forever chemicals’ in some Vancouver, Clark Public Utilities’ water sources

Tyler Clary, Vancouver water engineering program manager, discusses PFAS contamination in the Vancouver water supply at the 78th Street pumping facility in January.

March 27, 2024, 6:06am Clark County Health

There’s an old adage that nothing lasts forever, except perhaps true love and diamonds. Now we can add per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, to that short list. In recent years, both the city of Vancouver and Clark Public Utilities have discovered PFAS, more commonly known as “forever chemicals,” in… Read story