The event will also include tours of Evergreen’s emergency department, decontamination demonstrations and a Coast Guard rescue helicopter on display.
In an effort to raise awareness of the need for organ donations, a team from Swedish Medical Center and LifeCenter Northwest “Twittered” and webcast from the summit.
Paralytic Shellfish Poison (PSP) levels pose health risk, health officials say.
Nationally, employees now pay an average of $3,997 as their share of the annual family health insurance premium — about $1,000 more than in 2006 and twice the 2001 amount.
[ October 9, 2010; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Proceeds from Miles for Midwives benefit the Washington Chapter of the American College of Nurse Midwives and the Midwives’ Association of Washington State
Titles: When are we going to cure cancer? Cancer Chemotherapies and the Health of Your Bones. Late Effects After Cancer Therapy
Poll found that 43 percent of Americans viewed the law favorably – down from 50 percent in July – while 45 percent held unfavorable views. But voters more concerned about economy than the new health law.
Some health providers are offering patients health-care credit cards to help pay for care. But some patients charge they’ve been swindled.
Related events: Starting this week Lifelong Thrift Store sales event and donations of a portion of proceeds from Chef Ricky Flickenger’s Burgeoisie Brunches — and on Sept. 8 a “Happy Hour for Hope” at Bad Monkey Bistro
[ September 25, 2010; 9:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] The Seattle AIDS Walk & 5K Run is Lifelong’s largest annual event to raise funds and awareness to battle HIV and AIDS in our community.
Join the Lifelong AIDS Alliance and thousands of supporters on Saturday, September 25, 2010 in Volunteer Park on Capitol Hill to honor 24 years of offering hope for a future free [...]
Reform forces insurers to cover basic benefits, restricts their ability to mistreat consumers, and limits what they can spend on overhead: bad news for the inefficient.
While we tend to think of the homeless as single men living on the street—because those are the homeless we see—55 percent of the homeless in King County are, in fact, families with children.
Medicaid expansion to cover more working poor. Funding to boost community health clinics. Incentives to encourage more to pursue primary care careers.
Project Homestead aims to help 15 low-income, “high-needs” homeless King County families find permanent homes.
Many homeless people now ineligible for Medicaid will be covered in 2014 when Medicaid expands under the new health law to include adults without children.
[ August 28, 2010; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Organizers will giveaway free backpacks to the first 200 students to participate in the clinic.
Seniors are staying in their homes with the help of networks of friends and family’s called a “village”, which helps them manage tasks the can no longer handle on their own.
Electronic monitoring devices can help families keep watch over aging relatives who are living alone.
Using motion sensors and cameras, family members can “check-in” over the Internet to make sure elderly relatives are O.K.
New homes built with “universal design” allow the elderly and disable to stay in their homes and live independently.
The story of 1993 Washington Health Services Act should serve as a cautionary tale.
Children who have not been fully immunized have fallen ill in recent whooping cough and chickenpox outbreaks in the state.
Despite the clear benefits of health IT, only two in ten doctors and one in ten hospitals use even a basic electronic record system.
Nature offers a special supplement on Parkinson’s disease online for free for a limited time. USAID offers free courses on global health.
More of Washington teens are up-to-date on their shots, but the state still has a way to go before it achieves recommended 90 percent target immunization rate.
Among American cities, the highest rates of walking and cycling to work were in Boston, Washington D.C., San Francisco, Minneapolis and Seattle.
In the past, some plans would refuse to pay the routine care of patients in clinical trials, arguing the treatments were experimental and therefore not covered.
Early genetic studies indicated that the gene was located at the end of chromosome 4. But where the gene was and how it became activated was a puzzle.
Here’s what you should look for on the carton of eggs in your refrigerator:
Starting next year, doctors who refer Medicare and Medicaid patients to in-house imaging machines must disclose in writing that they own the equipment.
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
E-Health Records: Seattle is ahead of the curve
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