In today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the paper’s Capitol Correspondent Chris McGann compares the health plans of Washington gubernatorial candidates Chris Gregoire and Dino Rossi.
“Gov. Gregoire thinks healthcare is a right, not a perk,” according to Gregoire’s website, “and she is taking on the challenge of keeping our children and families healthy.” The campaign website contains relatively little about Gregoire’s health-care reform proposals, but more is available on the Governor’s official state site.
On his website, Dino Rossi says the incumbent Gov. Christine Gregoire ”has been too focused on bureaucratic solutions and has failed to act decisively to make health insurance more affordable for all people in Washington.”
Researchers from Seattle and Sweden met in Seattle last weekend to discuss the latest diabetes research The annual Seattle-Sweden conferences are designed to highlight a number of collaborative projects between diabetes researchers working here and in Sweden.
Today’s Seattle Post-Intelligencer features two op-ed piece taking opposing sides on Initiative 1000. If passed, the measure, which is on this Nov. 4 ballot, would allow physicians to write prescriptions for a lethal dose of medication for terminally ill adults who wish to take their own lives.
Seattle Times health reporter Kyung M. Song has a front-page article in today’s paper comparing the health-care reform plans of Senators John McCain and Barack Obama.
Oregon gourmet food producer Harry & David is issuing a recall of Harry & David Moose Munch Confection, Milk Chocolate Gingerbread because some packages may contain pecans that are not declared on the package’s list of ingredients. “People who have an allergy or severe sensitivity to pecans run the risk of serious or life-threatening allergic [...]
October 22—Health officials today approved the reopening of the Lake Stevens restaurant that investigators had linked to an E. coli outbreak that had sickened 17. The restaurant Ixtapa at 303 – 91st Ave. NE in Lake Stevens, north of Seattle had shut its doors voluntarily yesterday (Oct. 21) in order to sanitize the entire restaurant and remove all [...]
Former Washington State Governor John Spellman disagrees with two other former Washington governors, Booth Gardner and Daniel Evans, on Initiative 1000, the measure on this November’s ballot that would allow physicians to prescribe a lethal dose of medications to terminally ill adults who wish to end their own lives.
Beginning next month, patients covered by the health insurer Aetna will be able to transfer their medical records to Microsoft’s online medical record service HealthVault. Currently, Aetna members have access to their personal medical records on a service run by Aetna. Starting in November, Aetna members will be able to transfer those records to the [...]
Health officials investigating the E. coli outbreak in Snohomish County, north of Seattle, say “the likely exposure site Ixtapa restaurant, 303 – 91st Ave. NE, #B201, in the city of Lake Stevens (east of Everett, central Snohomish County).” “On hearing the investigators’ findings, the restaurant owner voluntarily closed the Lake Stevens today at 12:30 p.m. and pledged [...]
Under new rules, Medicare will no longer pay hospitals for care needed because of medical errors. In her regular column, Dr Carolyn Clancy, director of the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, says the new rules should help make hospitals safer and improve the quality of hospital care.
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