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2007 was a slightly safer year in Seattle and King County, according to the King County Medical Examiner’s office.
According to the Medical Examiners 2007 annual report, deaths due to homicide fell in King County from 91 in 2006 to 76 in 2007 and deaths due to suicide fell slightly, from 227 to 223.
Most homicides [...]

Sugar causes hyperactivity in children, yes? — No.
Suicides increase over the holidays, yes? — No.
Poinsettias are poisonous, yes? — No.
You lose most of your body heat through your head, yes? — No, again
Eating at night makes you fatter, yes? — No.
You can cure or prevent an hangover, yes? — Unfortunately, no.
Those, at least, are the conclusions of the two authors of [...]

Bottomline: Probably not.
You may have read in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer today or heard on local television about a study that suggests children living in rainy counties in Washington have a higher risk of developing autism.
The stories spring from a paper published in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine this week.
In that paper, researchers [...]

hile most women who survive breast cancer find a way to deal with the emotional and psychological aspects of having the disease and put the experience behind them, about one in ten will continue to struggle for many years to understand why they developed cancer, Seattle researchers report in the current issue of the journal Women & Health.