8th District: Dem tops $1M, Rossi stages $1K ‘All Star Huddle’

Dr. Kim Schrier, an Issquah pediatrician running as a Democrat to replace GOP Rep. Dave Reichert, becomes the second 8th District candidate to top $1 million in money raised. Dr. Kim Schrier, an Issquah pediatrician running as a Democrat to replace GOP Rep. Dave Reichert, becomes the second 8th District candidate to top $1 million in money raised.

Harsher policies under Trump reportedly damage health of

Their fears - real and imagined - about the potential deportation of their parents are causing illness and perhaps permanent brain changes, according to a new study released Wednesday by the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit leader in health-policy analysis. The study showed that legal and undocumented immigrant families are being consumed by the stresses produced by the Trump administration's harsher enforcement policies.

Prestigious doctors’ groups denounce health care vote

Many of the country's most respected doctors' groups and consumer health organizations are decrying Thursday's vote in the House for a Republican health care bill , is an amended version of the American Health Care Act , a GOP plan to replace the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare. Within hours of the vote, many of the country's top medical organizations representing hundreds of thousands of physicians and doctors in training, made public statements and spoke out on social media.

Advice for parents on body image amid 2016 campaign insults

Even if your daughters don't pay much attention to politics, they'd be hard-pressed to have missed Donald Trump's attack of a former Miss Universe's weight or comments about a 400-pound hacker. It resonated with a 15-year-old who said this week the words damage girls' body image and asked Hillary Clinton how to help.