Physicians say that hospice is great, but there's too little service and it's offered too late.That's one of the top findings of a new national survey conducted to compare attitudes and perceptions about hospice care among consumers and agree on

UCLA researchers claim to have pinpointed the culprit behind chronic rejection of heart, lung, and kidney transplants.They say their findings, published in the Nov. 23 edition of a journal called Science Signaling, suggest new therapeutic for on

Providence Holy Family Hospital says it has been certified as a primary stroke center following an exhaustive evaluation of its four-year-old stroke-care program by The Joint Commission, the nation's largest health-care accrediting body. "This a

An investment company owned by Spokane oncologist Dr. Arvin Chaudhry has bought 1.2 acres of land in Spokane Valley and plans to develop a two-story medical building there that will house an oncology clinic, says Mark McLees, a real estate agent in

Rockwood Clinic PS, the big doctors group here owned by Community Health Systems Inc., of Franklin, Tenn., plans to open its first clinic in Deer Park soon.The new location, to be called Rockwood Deer Park Clinic, will be a family practice and

Unicep Packaging Inc., a Sandpoint-based packager of gels, liquids, and creams, has introduced what it calls the DualDose package, which keeps two components separate until it's time to mix them so a product can be used.When the user bends a an

Washington State University researchers recently received a $320,000 grant from the national Alzheimer's Association to test a new early intervention method for the treatment of mild cognitive impairments, a precursor to Alzheimer's disease and two

Widely prescribed for their cholesterol-lowering properties, statins can produce a second, significant health benefit—lowering the risk of severe bacterial infections such as pneumonia and sepsis, recent clinical research indicates.A new by