Health Care

359 Stories

Health

Seattle doctors embracing weight-neutral healthcare

For people who are overweight, just going to the doctor can be anxiety inducing. No matter the reason for the visit, body weight will likely come up. It might even prevent them from getting treatment. KUOW health reporter Eilis O’Neill is here to talk about a new approach some Seattle providers are embracing: Weight-neutral healthcare.
Patricia Murphy

Clare McGrane
Health

Some Seattle doctors are ditching the scale. They say focusing on weight drives misdiagnoses

Doctors have long emphasized their patients' weight and blamed the health problems of anyone with a larger body on the number on the scale. Now, some Seattle-area providers are trying a new approach: throwing out the scale, and never recommending intentional weight loss.
Eilís O'Neill
Business

Healthcare bumps tech in new jobs

For more than a decade, tech has dominated Seattle’s job market. A scroll through job listing sites would call up a long list of openings for software engineers and developers. Recent data from the Washington Employment Security Department says the market is shifting. And healthcare has moved into the top spot for hiring. Seattle Times reporter Paul Roberts is here to talk about what changes in the job market mean for the city.
Patricia Murphy

Jennie Cecil Moore
Health

2022 was the worst year on record for attacks on heath-care workers

A new report from the Safeguarding Health in Conflict Coalition documents almost 2,000 incidents in 2022: 'a shockingly violent year against health care, especially in Ukraine and in Myanmar.'
Diane Cole
Arts & Life

Catch model-walking, voguing, and other competitions at this cowboy-themed Seattle ball

This isn’t your typical 1950s-style ballroom. This type of ballroom is a mashup of model-walking, voguing, and other performance arts.
Gustavo Sagrero Álvarez
Health

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
Health

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.
Eilís O'Neill
Government

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
National

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
Health

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.
Eilís O'Neill

6 of 36