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  Bellevue principal on leave after claiming a school aide’s seizure stemmed from cocaine use

  The principal of a Bellevue elementary school has been put on administrative leave after telling 911 dispatchers, apparently based on hearsay, that a school aide who was having a seizure in a classroom was a cocaine user.

  • Stephen Howie
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  They surprised their dad with a trip to the NFC Championship. The video went viral

  A short video made the rounds of social media this week. In it, we see a man in a Seattle Seahawks jersey riding in a car. “Why did we come all the way to Seattle?,” he asks, and someone laughs. It was Sunday, January 25, the day of the NFC Championship game between the Seahawks and the LA Rams. To learn about the backstory of this now viral video, KUOW’s Kim Malcolm talked to University of Washington graduate and UCLA medical school student Irvin Garcia.

  • Kim Malcolm
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  He suffered two strokes. This electric brain implant helped him regain use of his arm

  Perhaps the most compelling finding from a UW Medicine study to help stroke victims recover hand movement is that if its first subject applied to be part of the study today, he would not qualify.

  • Stephen Howie
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  Seattle Schools knew there was methane gas beneath its new high school — but skipped some safety measures

  Before Seattle Public School spent $300 million to rebuild Rainier Beach High School on a peat bog, scientists hired by the district warned that methane in the soil could pose an explosive problem if it were to leak into the school.

  • Ann Dornfeld
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  West Seattle’s only overnight shelter set to close at the end of the year

  Westside Neighbors Shelter will keep serving breakfast and dinner daily, but the overnight sleeping program has run out of money and will close at the end of the year.

  • Casey Martin
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  Pregnancy-related deaths are increasing in Washington state. Most could be prevented

  Maternal deaths in Washington state rose in 2021 and 2022 compared to previous years, according to a report released by the state health department Monday.

  • Eilís O'Neill
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  Washington, other West Coast states, go against CDC, recommend hepatitis B vaccine for all newborns

  A CDC panel voted on Friday to recommend the hepatitis B vaccine only to the babies of mothers who test positive for the virus, or whose status is unknown, and to suggest that, for all other babies, doctors and parents should have a conversation about the risks and benefits of the shot, a process known as “shared clinical decision-making.”

  • Eilís O'Neill
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  You can starve at any weight. People with atypical anorexia struggle to get diagnoses, treatment

  The stereotype of someone with anorexia is an extremely skinny teen girl. But you can suffer from anorexia in any size body, at any age. When someone has anorexia but their body mass index (BMI) is over 18.5, it's called atypical anorexia.

  • Eilís O'Neill
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  'There's no silver bullet.' Seattle researchers say autism answers lie in early diagnosis, interventions

  Autism has become a lightning rod issue at the federal level, with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announcing what he believes are a cause and cure for the condition. But autism researchers in Seattle say what’s needed are early diagnoses and early interventions.

  • Eilís O'Neill
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  Food bank, meal program visits in Seattle soar following SNAP cuts

  The supplemental food assistance program, also known as SNAP, ran out of funding on Nov. 1, after the Trump administration said it paused the program due to the government shutdown. In response to the court orders, the administration said the program will be partially funded. Meanwhile, Seattle-area food banks are seeing a jump in visits, as SNAP recipients scramble for ways to cover the loss.

  • Noel Gasca

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