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The Legislature is paving the way to provide funding to the Department of Health for monitoring, quarantines and equipment, should it be needed.

Four bills that would prohibit sales of flavored vaping products are moving through the state House and Senate chambers.

Hawaii is among 39 states investigating the company’s marketing business practices.

In the U.S. intolerable suffering and an incurable medical condition alone are not enough to qualify someone for an aided death.

Lawmakers need to find the money to continue paying for the state’s prevention program, too.

As of Thursday, the Hawaii Health Department had yet to identify any suspect coronavirus cases in Hawaii, but continues to investigate the Hawaii vacation of a Japanese couple who later fell ill.

Only 25% of kids between 1 and 2 years old get tested, in part because it’s not required. A bill in the Legislature would require mandatory testing for the first time.

The state is working to identify anyone who may have come in contact with the man.

UPDATED: A state Med-QUEST plan to simplify its insurance playing field by offering two health plans to Medicaid patients on neighbor islands is receiving pushback.

If it passes, Hawaii would be the fifth state allowing importation of drugs from north of the border.