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Tacoma TB patient eludes authorities

Soundside host Libby Denkmann talks to Matt Driscoll of the News Tribune in Tacoma about the person with a confirmed case of tuberculosis who has evaded authorities for over a year.
Libby Denkmann

Jason Burrows

May 25, 2023 / 3:57 pm
Investigation continues into Virginia Mason bacterial outbreak, link to patient deaths unclear

A bacterial outbreak at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle has sickened 31 patients since October. Seven of them have since died, but it’s unknown what caused those deaths — the infection or the diagnoses that brought them to the hospital in the first place.
Eilis O'Neill

May 05, 2023 / 4:03 pm
Sponsor of WA bill on trans youth targeted by right-wing groups

Last month, onlookers gathered at the state capitol to protest Senate Bill 5599. The bill recently cleared the Washington legislature recently, and extends emergency shelter options for youth seeking reproductive or gender-affirming healthcare. But despite its specificity, the bill has been swept into a larger battle over transgender rights.
Libby Denkmann

Alec Cowan

May 03, 2023 / 5:06 pm
North Dakota governor signs law limiting trans health care

Gender-affirming care for minors has been available in the U.S. for more than a decade and is endorsed by major medical associations, but it has come under attack in many conservative legislatures.
The Associated Press

April 21, 2023 / 2:21 am
Washington state lawmakers pass protections for gender-affirming care

Washington state lawmakers approved a bill Wednesday that protects teen runaways seeking gender-affirming or reproductive health care. The bill is now headed to Gov. Jay Inslee's desk for a signature to make it official.
Eilis O'Neill

April 19, 2023 / 2:52 pm
What workers want: How industries hollowed out by the pandemic are getting folks back

We’ve all seen the help wanted signs, had slow service at our favorite restaurant, or maybe a long wait in the ER. The markers of the Great Resignation are inescapable. Nearly 100 million workers quit their jobs in the past two years. Now, employers are trying to figure out how to get them back. KUOW talked to hiring managers and workers in some of the industries hit hardest by the pandemic about what it takes to get folks back to work.
Monica Nickelsburg

April 17, 2023 / 9:17 am
Federal bills address flawed health records linked to deaths at VA medical centers

Soundside producer Jason Burrows sits down with Spokesman Review legislative reporter Orion Donovan-Smith to talk about the different bills introduced to help solve the problems plaguing the VA's new Electronic Health Records system in Spokane.
Jason Burrows

Zaki Barak Hamid

April 11, 2023 / 3:29 pm
WA State and the fight for reproductive rights

The US Department of Justice asked a federal appeals court to put a hold on a Texas court ruling over access to the abortion medication mifepristone Meanwhile here in Washington, lawmakers are hearing testimony on legislation that would create a pathway to distribute the more than 30 thousand dose stockpile we just purchased.
Patricia Murphy

Brooklyn Jamerson-Flowers

April 11, 2023 / 5:00 am
Thousands on Medicaid in WA may lose coverage

Thousands of Apple Health enrollees are at risk of losing health care coverage now that pandemic protections for Medicaid have expired across the US. That coverage gap will look different across the country. But in Washington… you may no longer meet the requirements or you could miss the deadline to reapply. Aaron Katz is a Principal Lecturer Emeritus for the School of Public Health at University of Washington. He’ll walk us through some of the administrative hurdles and how the red tape may impact patients in our state/county.
Patricia Murphy

Brandi Fullwood

April 06, 2023 / 5:03 am
Native, Black doulas say culturally specific birth care could help reduce high maternal death rates

In Washington state and nationwide, Black and Native American mothers and their babies are more likely to die during or after pregnancy than white moms and their babies. And the rates are getting worse. Now, some birth workers in the Seattle area are trying to turn things around with help from some new government funding.
Eilis O'Neill

April 04, 2023 / 3:26 pm

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