It’s difficult, often impossible, to uncover the cause of a birth-defect cluster. But the task is made tougher in Washington state and across the U.S. by a scattershot system that doesn’t routinely or ...

Couples in south central Washington face a difficult reality. They are four times more likely to conceive a child with a fatal birth defect. Since 2010, 31 babies in Yakima, Benton and Franklin ...

A new technical paper titled “DECOR: Deep Embedding Clustering with Orientation Robustness” was published by researchers at Oregon State University and Micron Technology. “In semiconductor ...

It has been three years since a nurse alerted state health officials to an alarming coincidence she saw at Prosser Memorial Hospital, and questions surrounding those circumstances still remain. Sara ...

YAKIMA — After a nearly two-year investigation, the state Department of Health has concluded that there was no sole factor to blame for a cluster of fatal birth defects in Yakima and neighboring ...

Amid a growing cluster of birth defects in Central Washington, state officials are rewriting a Medicaid-coverage rule to give more women access to vitamins that can help prevent the deadly disorder.