Pertussis Outbreak At Seattle High School Prompts Recommendation For Booster After 13 students at Roosevelt High School in Seattle came down with whooping cough, Seattle Public Schools looked at their records and saw they had all... Amina Al-Sadi
For Rural Health, Insurance Isn't The Only Remedy Jeannie Yandel talks with Pat Justis, rural health manager at the Washington State Department of Health, about the myriad of health issues facing rural... Matthew Streib
Washington State Health Exchange Expects Smoother Rollout Marcie Sillman interviews KUOW health reporter Ruby de Luna about some of the changes the Washington state Health Exchange has made. Last year more than... Marcie Sillman
Seattle Nurse Heads To Sierra Leone: 'Every Day I Count Back From 21' Marcie Sillman speaks with Seattle nurse Karin Huster, who is getting on a plane this weekend to fight Ebola in Sierra Leone. She previously was... Hannah Burn
JBLM To House Troops Returning From Fighting Ebola Joint Base Lewis-McChord south of Seattle is one of five bases nationwide that will keep troops returning from West Africa in a controlled monitoring... Patricia Murphy
UW Surgeon Performs His First Gorilla Surgery The veterinarians at the Woodland Park Zoo had grown increasingly alarmed. Vip – known also as The Big Guy or Vippers – was an alpha male gorilla with a... Jeannie Yandel
Seattle Biotech Company Dendreon Files For Bankruptcy Ross Reynolds talks to Seattle biotech writer Luke Timmerman about the biotech company Dendreon, which filed for bankruptcy after their prostate cancer... Ross Reynolds
One Woman's Story Of Healing After A School Shooting Jeannie Yandel talks with Natalie Snyder, who was wounded in the 1996 shooting at Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake, Wash., about the long process of... Matthew Streib
Dr. Atul Gawande On What Matters In End-Of-Life Care Ross Reynolds has a wide-ranging discussion of end-of-life issues with Atul Gawande, author of “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End."... Ross Reynolds
Seattle Is Blazing The Trail On Cremation Ross Reynolds talks with Jeff Jorgenson, owner of Elemental Cremation and Burial, about why 90 percent of people in Seattle are cremated, compared with... Matthew Streib
