Monday, July 6, 2009 - Page updated at 05:28 p.m.
A Seattle Times Investigation
Culture of resistance
The drug-resistant germ MRSA lurks in Washington hospitals, carried by patients and staff and fueled by inconsistent infection control. This stubborn germ is spreading at an alarming rate, but no one has tracked these cases — until now.
NEW - 05:28 PM
Super glue: It's holding us together these days
A look at some of the "glues" that are replacing stitches, staples and bandages.
NEW - 05:17 PM
Sunday, July 5
The People's Pharmacy | Estrogen mimicker found in sunscreen
Friday, July 3
VA clinic opens in Mount Vernon
Layoffs planned at Rainier School as DSHS deals with budget cuts
Just how friendly are those probiotics in your food?
Thursday, July 2
Wednesday, July 1
Cantwell hints she might back Obama's public health plan
FDA urged to ban popular painkillers
Ecstasy being peddled as cartoon-shaped pills
Tuesday, June 30
Gregoire OKs emergency money for flu season
Ouch! Experts' tips for a safer summer outdoors
Monday, June 29
Free Health screenings start today at White Center Walgreens
Sunday, June 28
Even those with health insurance are going broke
Cancer research funded cautiously
The People's Pharmacy | Drug helps arthritis, hurts head
Saturday, June 27
Despite medical advances, recovery times for regular folks take time
Thursday, June 25
Puget Sound area ranks high in cancer risk from toxic air pollution, reports say
Obituary | Doctor fought cancer while stuck in Antarctica
Cancer that struck Farrah Fawcett is rare but deadly
Wednesday, June 24
Dogs, cats infecting owners with MRSA, says study
Monday, June 22
Receiving text messages—from your brain?
UPDATE - 5:30 PM
Recently posted jobs
shopping
events for Monday, Jul. 6th
- IKEA Summer Sale
- REI Summer Sale and Clearance
- Impulse + Totokaelo Spring Inventory...
- Market Street Shoes and Market Street...
editors' picks
More shopping guides
- Seattle may allow homeowners to build backyard cottages
- Landmark Smith Tower mostly vacant
- Police: McNair's girlfriend bought gun Thursday
- Mariners Blog | What the Seattle Mariners learned on their road trip
- Property taxes: Appeals shoot up in King, Snohomish Counties
- Climber who died in fall was Duvall woman
- New laws help tenants evicted due to foreclosure
- Palin links resignation to 'higher calling' and blasts media in Facebook posting
- Former NFL MVP McNair killed
- Hard times for tourist towns means good deals for travelers
- Palin links resignation to 'higher calling' and blasts media in Facebook posting
221 - What Mariners learned on this road trip 160
- Tent City on campus: UW stalls decision 118
- Seattle may allow homeowners to build backyard cottages 98
- FBI denounces rumors: Palin not investigated 91
- New laws help tenants evicted due to foreclosure 74
- Bellevue ordinance would fine retailers for not collecting runaway shopping carts 65
- Bicyclist fatally hit by SUV outside Bremerton 64
- 2 wounded in Central District drive-by shooting 63
- Man fatally shot by King County deputy during domestic-violence call 47
- Seattle may allow homeowners to build backyard cottages
- Property taxes: Appeals shoot up in King, Snohomish Counties
- Researchers stunned by inmates' success raising endangered frogs
- Hard times for tourist towns means good deals for travelers
- Landmark Smith Tower mostly vacant
- 250 gather in field near Twisp for fairy congress
- New laws help tenants evicted due to foreclosure
- Microsoft warns of serious computer security hole
- Plasma and LCD beware; OLED screens ready to go mainstream
- Home sales climb in June in King County; median price drops from year ago to $395,000
