Generalized anxiety disorder currently is more common for Inland Northwest women than panic attacks, social phobias, and other anxiety-related health issues, experts here say. More frequently, they say, women are waiting until anxiety-related reach

For a woman whose family has a history of breast or ovarian cancer, a simple test can tell whether or not she's at a higher than average risk of developing cancer in her lifetime, based on her heredity, physicians here say. In the early 1990s, a

Lactation educators here say the rate of breast-feeding is on the rise, and expect that trend to continue as awareness grows and as more employers make accommodations for lactating employees to comply with new federal rules that are part of the the

Vandervert Construction Inc. is erecting a retail center that Thai Bamboo Restaurant LLC plans to anchor at 5406 N. Division. Bernardo Wills Architects PS, of Spokane, designed the $1.5 million project, which is scheduled to be completed in March.

SCH Construction LLC, of Spokane, is developing a $2.2 million, 24-unit rental-housing project at 3405 S. Cook, on Spokane's South Hill. The cottage home-style houses, which will have an average of 1,000 square feet of living space each, are to be