Health

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What I knew about suicide didn’t fit my sweet, energetic 12-year-old boy

Penny Daniel is a grandmother and mother of three, "a big, a middle and a little." She recently shared this heart-wrenching story about the death of her 12-year-old son, Declan, at the NAMI Washington's storytelling event, The Brainpower Chronicles. It's a difficult story, but draws together some lessons learned after a terrible tragedy.
By
Kara McDermott

Dec 13, 2018 at 1:59 pm
Seattle ambulance workers plan to strike just before Christmas

The emergency workers say their employer, American Medical Response, doesn't pay them a livable wage and has refused their contract proposals for raises.
By
Paige Browning

Dec 12, 2018 at 4:13 pm
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My grandpa lost his girlfriend to cancer. He fights for Medicaid in her name

My grandpa, Steve Schoettmer, lost his girlfriend Rose to colon cancer in 2017. In the past, his county's Democratic party had approached him about running for office, but he had refused. Rose was too ill. But when he heard that Speaker Paul Ryan was threatening to cut Medicaid and Medicare, he decided that it was time for him to run.
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Hannah Schoettmer

Dec 11, 2018 at 11:40 am
12 Seattle schools have critical food safety violations. It’s worse for low-income kids

A look at the county’s health inspection data shows that a dozen Seattle public schools received “unsatisfactory” ratings on their last cafeteria inspections.
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Ann Dornfeld

Dec 11, 2018 at 12:43 am
Washington AG says he'll fight the feds over law to help sick Hanford workers

The federal government is attempting to block a Washington law passed earlier this year that aims to help sick Hanford nuclear cleanup workers obtain workers' compensation.
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Sydney Brownstone

Dec 10, 2018 at 6:00 pm
Seattle’s public health enemy #1? Climate change

“This is the most significant health threat facing both our region and the world.”
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John Ryan

Dec 10, 2018 at 9:15 am
A Seattle woman died of an infection after using her neti pot

There's a spike in interest — and concern — about nasal rinses called neti pots, after a Seattle woman died from a rare amoebic infection.
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Paige Browning

Dec 06, 2018 at 4:44 pm
No, that's not cocaine. People are buying fentanyl in disguise and dying

Overdose deaths from illicit fentanyl have spiked in Washington -- 81 in the first half of 2018, state officials say.
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Patricia Murphy

Dec 06, 2018 at 8:15 am
When an immigrant dies in custody, how much does ICE tell the public?

Kim Malcolm talks with Human Rights Watch senior researcher Grace Meng about the death of Mergensana Amar, a Russian national who died after a suicide attempt at the Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma.
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Andy Hurst

Kim Malcolm

Nov 30, 2018 at 4:38 pm
Why Washington foster kids are sleeping in hotels

Kim Malcolm talks with foster care advocate Jen Kamel about why there's a significant foster parent shortage in Washington state.
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Andy Hurst

Kim Malcolm

Nov 29, 2018 at 4:12 pm