Food for thought: The price of food is on the rise, but investors should be aware that this global phenomenon doesn't affect all food companies the same way.Cereal, salty-snack, candy, and beverage companies can most easily pass along their on a

May 16 / Avista seeks rate hikesAvista Corp. of Spokane, said it filed a request with the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission to increase electric and natural gas rates for Washingtoncustomers. If approved as requested, electric by

Meetings & EventsGreater Spokane Incorporated will hold a networking event, Business After Hours, on Thursday, May 19, from 5 to 7 p.m., at the Spokane Convention Center Riverside Exhibit Hall, 200 W. Spokane Falls Blvd., downtown. The event is a

For the first time, researchers claim to have used a healthy person's complete genome sequence to predict his or her risk for dozens of diseases and how that person will respond to several common medications.The risk analysis, from the Stanford

People go to hospitals to be treated for an illness or for corrective surgery with the expectation they will return home in much better health than when they entered the medical facility.The reality, though, is that many may never recover or A a

Purchases of cholesterol and diabetes prescription drugs by elderly Medicare beneficiaries reached nearly $19 billion in 2007, equating to about one-fourth of the approximately $82 billion spent for medications for the elderly, says the federal for

In a new study, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in New York City, claim to have taken a major step toward gaining the ability to predict adverse drug reactions, by using genetic, cellular, and clinical information to learn why some

Providence Physicians Services, a doctors group that's part of the Providence Health Care network here, is opening clinics specializing in epilepsy and stroke and transient ischemic attack (TIA) in a combined space in the Sacred Heart Doctors A TIA

Infrastructure upgrades are under way at Newport Community Hospital, in Newport, Wash., to free up space to consolidate some of the hospital's functions and eventually open an outpatient clinic there, says the architect on the project.The Don of