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  • Mobile Team Offers Comfort Care To Homeless At Life's End

    People who are homeless and have a terminal illness usually end up in the emergency room which is more expensive and less effective. The UW Medicine’s Harboview Medical Center is the first U.S. program that sends mobile teams to provide palliative care, comfort care, to homeless people facing terminal illness.

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  • As Seattle eyes supervised drug-injection sites, is Vancouver a good model?

    King County may become home to the first publicly supervised site in the U.S. where addicts could use illegal drugs such as heroin. The proposal is modeled on Insite, a center in Vancouver, B.C., that has prevented nearly 5,000 overdoses in 13 years and the spread of infectious diseases through supervised injection and a needle exchange program.

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  • FDA's ‘terrible policy error' blocks simple step to prevent fatal birth defects

    The life-saving vitamin folic acid is added to flour in the United States, but Hispanics tend to eat little flour. Adding folic acid to corn flour would reduce birth defects in Hispanic women in the U.S.

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