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  • Blogs

    April 27, 2012

    Comment of the Day: Whooping Cough Might Be Safer Than Vaccines

    On Wednesday Nina Shapiro posted about Bainbridge Island's anti-vaccine crusader Michael Belkin and his band The Refusers - who have made Internet waves this week with a video for the band's latest song, "First Do No Harm."

  • Blogs

    April 25, 2012

    Michael Belkin's Anti-Vaccine Music Video Goes 'Viral' Despite Worst Whooping Cough Epidemic in 60 Years

    Bainbridge Island's anti-vaccine crusader, Michael Belkin, is getting attention for a new music video his "protest" band has posted on YouTube. A KOMO-TV report yesterday pronounced the video, which has more than 275,000 hits, in "viral" territory (no pun apparently intended). Ironically, his breakt ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 9, 2011

    Seattle Scientists Inching Toward HIV Vaccine

    Image Source​As our feature story this week makes clear, the fight against HIV/AIDS is far from over. But researchers from the University of Washington and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have made significant progress developing a vaccine for the virus, and the Gates Foundation has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 29, 2011

    Vaccine Refusal Tolerated by Many Doctors, Survey Says

    As the anti-vaccine movement has grown over the past decade, there's been a lot of talk about doctors "firing" patients who refuse to immunize. The notion has fed an "us versus them mentality," says Seattle Children's pediatrician Douglas Opel. He's hoping his just-published article will dispel that ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 2, 2011

    Bill Gates is the Most Powerful Civilian in the World, says Forbes

    Bill Gates demonstrates his power​For the 29th year in a row I've been snubbed by Forbes magazine and its list of "The World's Most Powerful People." Not so for world hero Bill Gates.

  • News

    October 5, 2011

    Rick Perry: Miracle Faker

    Texas' governor paints a pretty portrait of his state. Pretty inaccurate, that is.

  • News

    October 5, 2011

    Tweaking the Formula

    Why Washington's new meth law won't work.

  • Blogs

    September 20, 2011

    CCC's Permafrost Cannabis Bulldozes Your Pain Away

    ​Conscious Care Cooperative's Aurora Avenue location is one of three CCC locations in greater Seattle, with the other two in Ballard and Lake City. Aurora CCC offers patients a range of medical marijuana, concentrates, medibles, topicals, and clones, with the staff offering friendly and knowledgea ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 27, 2011

    Coming Soon: Tetracan, a Medical Pot Patch for Pets (and Humans)

    ​It's intended to help animals manage chronic pain, but you may be tempted to slip it on Fido when he gets a little too rambunctious. A Seattle company is developing a medical marijuana patch for humans and animals, and intends to press for a change in state law that would allow veterinarian ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2011

    Attachment Parenting Mom Starts Pro-Vaccine Group Among an Unlikely Cohort

    ​Last week, Capitol Hill mom Jenny Allen started a group for families who vaccinate. That in itself would be noteworthy since this region, as we observed in last week's cover story, is an epicenter of the anti-vaccine movement. Allen's group, though, is all the more unusual because it's aimed ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 17, 2011

    Comment of the Week: Don't "Do Research," Just Assume Vaccines Are Evil

    ​This week's exhaustively-reported cover story "The Refusers," by Nina Shapiro, examines the growing anti-vaccine movement that's taken hold across the country--nowhere more than in Washington State. As Shapiro's reporting shows, many vaccine opponents rely on debunked science and baseless c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 16, 2011

    Bill Foege, Vashon Resident and Former CDC Director, Explains How He Eradicated Smallpox

    ​One of the ironies of the local anti-vaccine movement, profiled in this week's cover story, is that it has flourished in the very region that has drawn some of the most famous immunologists in the world. That's due largely to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which for years has been fun ... More >>

  • News

    June 15, 2011

    The Anti-Vaccine Epidemic

    Why Washington hosts the nation's fastest growing population of so-called "refusers."

  • Blogs

    June 15, 2011

    This Week's Cover Story: The Refusers

    ​When I first listened to the songs of Michael Belkin's new band, The Refusers, I found it hard to believe they were serious. With titles like "Vaccine Gestapo" and "Vaccination Uber Alles," they liken immunization to the Holocaust, a theme Belkin repeats in an essay for the just-published boo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2011

    Sharon Cissna, Alaska State Rep., Leaves Sea-Tac Airport in Protest After Pat-Down Ordered on Mysterious Mastectomy

    ​Alaska state Rep. Sharon Cissna says she'd already been body-scanned when the TSA agents at Sea-Tac told her she'd need a pat-down too. The reason: her mastectomy was somehow throwing off the scanning machine.

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    Amazon Selling Do-It-Yourself Gastric-Bypass Surgery Kit

    ​UPDATE: Amazon has removed the DIY gastric-bypass surgery kit from its website. Apparently people will have to settle for kitchen knives and rubber bands from now on. Paying $18,000 to $35,000 for a gastric bypass surgery is fine--if you want it performed by "doctors." But who needs those no ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 18, 2011

    UW Students Hack Kinect to Perform Robotic Surgery

    ​Manboob simulator? Check. Flying robots? Check. World of Warcraft interface? Check. Robotic surgery scanner? Ch-wait . . . robotic surgery wtf?

  • News

    January 12, 2011

    Rage Against the Vaccine

    The Waldorf School makes no apologies for its dubiously low immunization rate.

  • Blogs

    January 10, 2011

    Seattle's Waldorf School Is King County's Least Vaccinated

    ​The irony of the vaccine controversy is that most often it's the parents who should know better that don't. Even though the original 1998 report that first claimed a link between vaccines and autism has now been thoroughly debunked, the vaccination rate in wealthy, progressive enclaves around ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2011

    The Debunked Autism-Vaccine Connection and What It Might Mean for Washington

    ​Yesterday the British Medical Journal hammered home the final proverbial nail in Andrew Wakefield's coffin. Wakefield is the former doctor whose infamous 1998 study linking childhood vaccines to autism sparked international concerns about immunizations and gave rise to the phenomenon that is ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2010

    Painkiller Overdose Deaths Up Sharply in Washington

    ​King County has a prescription pain medicine problem. That much we know from a study conducted by the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. Last year, the Institute reported that 60 percent of the drug-related deaths in King County in 2008 involved prescription painkill ... More >>

  • Diversions

    March 24, 2010

    Vasectomy Fact #1: Men Are Nuts About Their Nuts

    ​King County has a prescription pain medicine problem. That much we know from a study conducted by the University of Washington's Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute. Last year, the Institute reported that 60 percent of the drug-related deaths in King County in 2008 involved prescription painkill ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 7, 2010

    Slayer Seattle date cancelled

    ​From the Department of Satanically Bad News, this just in: Slayer bassist/vocalist Tom Araya has had to cancel the band's forthcoming "American Carnage" tour with Megadeth and Testament, due to a back problem that requires immediate surgery. Considering that they were kind enough to invite ... More >>

  • News

    November 18, 2009

    Pigheaded Strategy

    When it comes to swine—or at least swine flu—Tacoma and Pierce County are a step ahead.

  • Blogs

    November 10, 2009

    Where's the Method to the H1N1 Vaccination Madness?

    How long did he have to wait in line?​This week, health care clinics and pharmacies are carrying out another round of H1N1 vaccination. They have been inundated. Many of the 44 pharmacies chosen by Public Health - Seattle & King County to distribute the vaccine to high-risk groups began sche ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 3, 2009

    Gates: Only $29 Bill in the Bank

    From the Always A Dark Side If You Look Hard Enough file: Even with $29.5 billion in the vault, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't overjoyed with its financial condition, the foundation's new CEO said today. "This has been a very hard year for foundations and nonprofits--and the near future d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2006

    Selling Icos

    From the Always A Dark Side If You Look Hard Enough file: Even with $29.5 billion in the vault, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't overjoyed with its financial condition, the foundation's new CEO said today. "This has been a very hard year for foundations and nonprofits--and the near future d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 19, 2006

    Flexcar

    From the Always A Dark Side If You Look Hard Enough file: Even with $29.5 billion in the vault, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't overjoyed with its financial condition, the foundation's new CEO said today. "This has been a very hard year for foundations and nonprofits--and the near future d ... More >>

  • News

    January 11, 2006

    Strongman of the North

    From the Always A Dark Side If You Look Hard Enough file: Even with $29.5 billion in the vault, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation isn't overjoyed with its financial condition, the foundation's new CEO said today. "This has been a very hard year for foundations and nonprofits--and the near future d ... More >>

  • News

    July 27, 2005

    Distort Reform

    I-330 would cap monetary awards for malpractice lawsuits. I-336 would crack down on serially inept doctors. Only one might solve an actual problem.

  • News

    July 27, 2005

    Fatal Flu

    A historic pandemic like that of 1918 is likely, perhaps as soon as this winter, and unless you're a health or government worker, no one's planning to save you.

  • News

    July 14, 2004

    The Home Affront

    They fight for us, obediently. Yet in conflict after conflict, American soldiers are injected, gassed, medicated, experimented on, exposed to chemicals, and given faulty weapons and equipment by their own government. Then they come home to vanishing veterans benefits and Pentagon stonewalling.

  • News

    April 21, 2004

    Life Goes On

    Catching up on our breast cancer survivor.

  • Arts

    March 10, 2004

    This Week's Reads

    Catching up on our breast cancer survivor.

  • News

    January 21, 2004

    Postmortem of a Scandal

    The main fall guy in the UW Medicare-fraud investigation says federal rules confounded him and other docs.

  • Film

    May 28, 2003

    Cry Woman, Direct Order, The Lover, Minimal Stories, and Oasis

    The main fall guy in the UW Medicare-fraud investigation says federal rules confounded him and other docs.

  • News

    November 20, 2002

    Zoo Suit Rendered Moot

    The unusual case of African-born students and TB tests.

  • News

    October 23, 2002

    The new faces of AIDS

    Disproportionately infected, blacks confront the reality that it's no longer a white, gay disease.

  • News

    May 22, 2002

    Heartless

    In the wake of a controversial surgeon's departure, Children's Hospital has drastically cut its heart surgery services.

  • Arts

    February 6, 2002

    Book briefs

    Conflicts among those fighting AIDS; another dark pearl from Joyce Carol Oates.

  • News

    January 30, 2002

    Missing instruments

    Another 13-inch surgical tool is left inside a patient at UW hospital.

  • News

    January 9, 2002

    Medical problems

    New claim discovered about "high incidence" of contamination at UW's hospital.

  • News

    November 29, 2000

    Tearing at Children's Heart

    The controversy that has shaken Children's Hospital to its core

  • Arts

    January 5, 2000

    Call for a Cure

    The social history of treating a dread disease.

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    Letters

    "Of course, one can't expect white-coat welfare recipients to admit that their breeding colonies and labs should be cut off from the federal tax dollar trough they feed from . . ."

  • News

    July 7, 1999

    Shots in the DARK?

    Debate over new generation of vaccines gets prickly.

  • News

    June 23, 1999

    How's Charlie?

    Nine heart bypasses put Chong back in council race.

  • News

    April 29, 1998

    When your blood eats your brain

    Mad-cow disease has shut down Britain's blood supply. Could it also be contaminating the US supply?

  • News

    April 1, 1998

    Hope for herpes—again

    After a major disappointment, UW researchers are again on the trail of a new vaccine.

  • News

    February 4, 1998

    The Man Who Remade Women

    Kirkland plastic surgeon Greg Johnson considered himself an artist who sculpted women in the flesh, but some patients say he was a shape-shifter of a very different kind. JUST ASK HIS WIFE

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