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Seattle’s Fred Hutch marks 50 years of groundbreaking cancer research

The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center is celebrating a big birthday Friday. The center opened its doors 50 years ago, on Sept. 5, 1975. Since then it has evolved from a scrappy lab doing what some considered risky science into one of the top cancer centers in the world.
- Gabriel Spitzer
Confused about your eligibility for the Covid shot? In Washington state, you’re covered

Thanks to a standing order signed by the state health officer Thursday, anyone in Washington state can get the Covid-19 vaccine without consulting their doctor.
- Eilís O'Neill
Seattle's Fresh Bucks program helps families afford, eat more fresh foods

A University of Washington study recently found that Seattle’s Fresh Bucks program that helps low-income families buy fruits and vegetables is also helping their daily intake of fresh produce.
- Ruby de Luna
This electric brain implant could help stroke victims recover. The first patient: A Seattle-area mechanic

Neurosurgeons and engineers at the University of Washington School of Medicine reached a milestone this summer, implanting a device inside the skull of a stroke victim that they believe can help him recover movement in his arm and hand.
- Stephen Howie
Religious groups pressure retail pharmacies, including Costco, not to carry abortion drug

Religious organizations have ramped up their pressure on retail pharmacies to not carry mifepristone — the first of two drugs used in most medication abortions and to manage some miscarriages.
- Eilís O'Neill
Washington’s safety net clinics face ‘perfect storm’ of federal threats

Clinics across Washington that focus on serving low-income patients are bracing for a dual threat from the federal government.
- Jake Goldstein-Street/Washington State Standard
A Spokane man sought female hiking companions. Instead, he found social media snark — and support

Jeff Heatwole lives in Spokane. He's 35, a divorced dad with a 5-year-old son, a music teacher by profession, and a member of a Facebook hiking group. And Jeff got more attention than he was bargaining for recently when he posted a seemingly simple message.
- Kim Malcolm
As Travis Decker manhunt stalls, Wenatchee veterans call for more mental health services

A military veteran, Travis Decker, is wanted for allegedly killing his three young daughters outside Wenatchee, raising questions about whether he had adequate mental health care for his diagnosed borderline personality disorder, and for what some speculate could also have been PTSD.
- Eilís O'Neill
Trump cuts could leave 250,000 Washingtonians without health coverage, shutter rural hospitals

State leaders and hospital officials say the so-called "Big Beautiful Bill" signed into law earlier this month by President Donald Trump could impact the access of hundreds of thousands of Washington residents to health care, especially in rural parts of the state.
- Maleeha Syed
As air quality worsens, UW scientist focuses on effects of wildfire smoke

It’s been a relatively quiet wildfire season so far in the Pacific Northwest, with not much in the way of large fires or widespread smoke pollution — yet. But a recent study found that more frequent wildfires have been erasing air quality gains in the United States.
- Kim Malcolm

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