Health

J. Marion Sims is remembered as the father of modern gynecology. Forgotten are the mothers—the enslaved women whose bodies were sacrificed for the advancement of his research.

A Petersburg flavored-salt startup and a Sitka poultry and livestock entrepreneur won this year’s Path to Prosperity contest.

“This is hard stuff. If it was easy, Alaska would have done it long ago,” Health Commissioner Valerie Davidson told lawmakers.

One tribal administrator hopes the group’s visit jump-starts funding for basic necessitates like water, sewer, electricity, and housing.

For seniors in Southeast, health care and housing options are limited. But a couple of adult day programs are offering relief for care providers, families and friends. They’re often a stop-gap solution until space opens up in a home.

The Learn to Adapt program includes sit-skiing and assisted instruction for people with physical and cognitive disabilities, seniors and kids.

More than 1 million low-income residents in 21 states could soon lose their government food stamps if they fail to meet work requirements that began kicking in this month.

Sue Klebold says she wishes she’d asked her son Dylan “the kinds of questions that would’ve encouraged him to open up.” Published 17 years after the massacre, her new memoir is A Mother’s Reckoning.

The number of homeless Californians under age 24 keeps rising, and many aren’t getting the physical and mental health care they need, teen advocates say. Mobile clinics are trying to fill the gaps.

About 9,200 Southeast Alaskans are 65 and older. That’s almost a one-third increase over five years ago. It puts Southeast’s average age at about five years higher than Alaska as a whole.