School Will Start Later For Many Seattle Teens A lot of Seattle teens can hit the snooze button next school year. The school board voted 6-1 Wednesday night to push back start times for middle and... Ann Dornfeld
Burned Firefighter Ready To See His Dog, Get Outside A firefighter critically injured in a deadly wildfire in eastern Washington last summer left Harborview Medical Center on Wednesday after three months... Paige Browning
Do You Need To Garden Your Gut? David Hyde interviews Seattle-based biologist Anne Bikle ad University of Washington Professor David Montgomery about their new book on the beneficial... David Hyde
Food Disease Detectives Work To Keep Public Safe Bill Radke talks with state epidemiologist Dr. Scott Lindquist about his work to track down the source of food-borne illnesses. Bill Radke
Wearable Artificial Kidney Could Free Up Patients For more than 600,000 patients living with end-stage kidney disease, dialysis is a lifesaver. But the blood-cleaning process keeps people attached to a... Ruby de Luna
Why We Need Geriatricians: 'I Think Of Us As Detectives' American seniors are growing in numbers. But the number of geriatricians, doctors who specialize in treating older patients, is actually shrinking. And... Ruby de Luna
Falls Common And Serious Problem In Older Adults If you’re an older person, a fall can be devastating. One in every three older adults falls each year, and the risk of falling increases with each decade. Ruby de Luna
Can Teens Refuse Life-Saving Care? Depends On The State Teens as young as 12 can make their own medical decisions in certain states. That’s because of the mature minor doctrine. The doctrine allows teens to... Isolde Raftery
When A 14-Year-Old Chooses To Die Because Of Religion, Can Anyone Stop Him? The first time I interviewed Dennis Lindberg , he was alone on a weekday evening. He had just turned 12, and he had set out Saltine crackers on a paper... Isolde Raftery
Number Of Chipotle E. Coli Cases Expands There are now 25 confirmed cases of E. coli in Washington state, 12 more in Oregon. Most of the cases are linked to Chipotle Restaurants. Officials have... Ruby de Luna
