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A bill calls for state review of consolidation, as abortions and gender-affirming procedures could be cut by religiously affiliated health systems.

New residencies at the 11-year-old Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine hope to address health care disparities between urban and rural communities.

Policy changes in the works for 2024 are intended to slash red tape for people with diabetes and avoid deadly insulin rationing.

The possession bill passed this year includes $63M for treatment centers. But it also gives local governments the power to regulate them.

From farming to coding, health care workers are leaving the bedside amid staffing shortages exacerbated by the pandemic.

Reporter Megan Burbank spoke with former nurses who, amid grievances like staffing shortages and low pay, changed their careers. 

Health officials are encouraging vaccinations for COVID-19, influenza and Respiratory Syncytial Virus Infection (RSV) ahead of the winter illness season.

Striving to counteract the whiteness of most mental health treatment, Ashley McGirt-Adair hopes “Reclaiming Wellness” will be an annual event.

The virus, discovered long before the COVID-19 pandemic, originated in Saudi Arabia and can be deadly to humans.

Fall vaccines, long COVID, staying safe during summer travel — here’s how to assess risk in the months to come.

Local committees will still set nurse/patient ratios amid new state oversight, but workers argue the current complaint system falls short.

A new report from the Washington Health Alliance found that there's work to be done for the state's more socioeconomically disadvantaged areas.

Synergia CEO Philip Hirsch has a decades-old history of allegedly shortchanging workers, who say part of the problem was a lack of oversight.

HB 1134 will fund mobile units and increased training for the hotline and response service that launched last summer.