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SEATTLE -- Washington's community colleges are turning away hundreds of unemployed workers from a retraining program because increasing demand has diminished financial aid funds. 'We have done everything we can [...]

As states struggle to balance their budgets, they also are facing rising prison populations and the accompanying increase in costs. The combination has some officials taking highly visible actions; Kentucky [...]

Washington state and Massachusetts also have been having discussions around methadone treatment funding. In Washington, some drug treatment advocates are calling on officials to spend more money toward ending 18-month [...]

OLYMPIA, Wash. -- The WASHINGTON RESTAURANT ASSOCIATION is opposing new legislation that would ban smoking in all public places in the state, including restaurants and bars. Both state Senate bill [...]

Proponents of Washington State's Initiative 119, a failed ballot proposition that would have authorized euthanasia for certain patients, have charged their opponents with using false advertising to obstruct passage of the measure. One flyer opposing Initiative 119 claimed that it would preclude family notification, jeopardize the lives of the depressed, aged, poor and homeless, and would not require special medical qualifications. The state Public Disclosure Commission has launched an investigation., Political opponents often decry each other's campaign tactics during the election, then drop everything afterward. But not, apparently, in Washington state. It seems the losers in the recent campaign there [...]

Washington's Governor Booth Gardner is expected to sign legislation that would allow people to authorize the withdrawal or withholding of life support if they become terminally ill or enter an irreversible coma or persistent vegetative state. Opponents of the law criticize ambiguous phrases that protect doctors but could harm patients. For example, the phrase 'reasonable medical judgment' could be interpreted broadly enough to allow almost any treatment., Although voters in Washington state rejected legalied euthanasia last fall, it is about to become easier there to withdraw life support from terminally ill patients. At press time, legislation expanding [...]

The Washington state Governor's Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS (GACHA) will host four public forums in October 1997 in Yakima, Spokane, Seattle, and Tacoma, in Washington, U.S., to receive community input [...]

WASHINGTON -- The Washington State Medical Assn. will not endorse a physician group set up to battle an initiative to legalize euthanasia. Last month's decision by the WSMA Board of [...]

Mike Lowry, Governor of Washington, presented to the Senate Health and Long-Term Care Committee the reasons why close to $5 million is needed to meet the anticipated needs of the [...]

The Washington State Board of Health and the Washington State Department of Health announced they held public meetings August 28, 1995, to introduce a proposal to add hepatitis B vaccine [...]

The chemical dependency benefit included in the uniform benefits package proposed by Washington state's Health Services Commission (HSC) offers significantly less than advocates in the addiction field had wanted, but [...]

Washington liquor Board Says 'No' to Limits on Ads The Washington State Liquor Control Board voted 3 to 0 against a proposed statute which would have put the strictest limits [...]

Washington State May Limit Alcohol Ads Spuds MacKenzie, the canine hawker of Bud Light beer, soon may become a rare breed in the state of Washington along with other alleged [...]

OLYMPIA, WA--Washington will pare back adult dental coverage for Medicaid patients next month in a bid to save $22.8 million over the next two years in part by eliminating payments [...]

Law enforcement officials in the state of Washington have started a methamphetamine awareness program with various individuals who have reasons to visit homes as part of their jobs, the Associated [...]

OLYMPIA, WA -- Washington state is starting a mail-order prescription drug service for Medicaid clients in an attempt to help patients who don't have access to a pharmacy because of [...]

After a six-month closure to new clients, the Washington State's Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program for low-income women reopened enrollment. In January 1998, a change in U.S. funding required [...]

Among several ballot measures defeated last week in the state of Washington was a hotly debated initiative that would have allowed physicians to recommend use of Schedule I drugs such [...]

-- NEWS ADVISORY -- TO CITY AND ASSIGNMENT DESKS AND EDUCATION EDITOR: WASHINGTON EDUCATION TO HOLD PRESS CONFERENCE Carla Nuxoll, president of the Washington Education Association, (WEA) will hold a [...]

/NEWS ADVISORY/ GOVERNORS' SCHOOL FOR CITIZEN LEADERSHIP UPCOMING HIGHLIGHTS The Governors' School for Citizen Leadership, an intense, four-week summer institute for juniors in high school that emphasize leadership development, self-esteem, [...]

GOV. GARDNER NAMES COMMITTEE TO DEVELOP PUBLIC EDUCATION CAMPAIGN ON FETAL ALCOHOL SYNDROME OLYMPIA, Wash., Oct. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- A public education campaign on fetal alcohol syndrome -- beginning in [...]

/NEWS ADVISORY/ GOVERNORS' SCHOOL FOR CITIZEN LEADERSHIP TO MEET WITH STATE EDUCATION LEADERS, CREATE 'MANDATE ON EDUCATION' One hundred high school juniors from the Governors' School for Citizen Leadership meet [...]

/NEWS ADVISORY/ GOVERNORS' SCHOOL FOR CITIZEN LEADERSHIP TO PRESENT 'MANDATE ON EDUCATION' TO GOV. GARDNER The 16- and 17-year-old fellows of the Governors' School for Citizen Leadership will present a [...]

WASHINGTON DELEGATION VISITS TO DISCUSS MET; CONTRACT TOTALS RELEASED LANSING, Mich., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- State Treasurer Robert A. Bowman welcomed a delegation of officials from the State of Washington [...]

/MEDIA ADVISORY/ WASHINGTON EDUCATION ASSOCIATION PRESIDENT TO DISCUSS LEGISLATIVE BUDGET Terry Bergeson, president of the Washington Education Association (WEA), will hold a news conference at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 11, [...]

Bills moving through both chambers of the Washington state legislature would reduce the scope of the state's ambitious Health Services Act, a sweeping reform plan that had been scheduled for [...]

Washington state's Health Services Commission (HSC) gave final approveal last month to a core set of health benefits for the state's health care reform act, with chemical dependency and mental [...]

Those with long-term care needs may find themselves depleting their personal resources under a reformed Washington state system, if the Health Services Commission's (HSC's) proposed chemical dependency benefit stands. The [...]

Chemical dependency and mental health services will be part of the uniform benefits package in the state of Washington's universal health plan, signed into law recently and endorsed by Hillary [...]

Taxes and Bans: How Effective Are They? In the state of Washington, a group of doctors wants to limit the ability of alcohol manufacturers to advertise their products. In other [...]

Washington A Clallam County, Washington, jury has convicted a man of second degree assault for having sex with a woman without informing her he was HIV-infected. He was the first [...]