During the day, Valerie Hunt is a school nurse at Fort Vancouver High School. But once the bell rings, the 58-year-old Vancouver resident takes on…
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There’s something essential to childhood that Daphne Calvert will never fully experience. In November 2017, Daphne’s hand use started to regress. Three months later, in…
Officials at Clark County Public Health are disputing a presentation given to the Vancouver City Council on Monday evening that claimed the region’s opioid-related overdoses…
The latest report from Vancouver’s contracted ambulance company contained a bright spot: Opioid overdoses in the region appear to be dropping so far in 2019…
After delivering her first baby, Christie Kirkpatrick put her hands on her knees as if she had just run a marathon. The 25-year-old medical student…
After more than a year of consideration, Battle Ground Public Schools is poised to move forward with the adoption of a sexual health curriculum featuring…
When Dr. Nathan Boyer and the rest of PeaceHealth Southwest Medical Center’s heart team completed Clark County’s first transcatheter aortic valve replacement, or TAVR procedure,…
Clark County Public Health once again changed the status of Vancouver Lake, downgrading its advisory from warning to caution. Blooms of cyanobacteria, also known as…
The Southwest Washington Free Clinic announced $8,500 in grant funding Tuesday. The clinic, which provides free health care to those who can’t otherwise obtain it,…
The Healthy Columbia Willamette Collaborative has identified discrimination, racism and trauma as the main drivers of health concerns for people in Clark County and the…