The city of Spokane Valley is planning four road projects, worth a total of about $6.7 million, along and near busy Sullivan Road this spring and summer. Two of the projects include replacing the asphalt-surface intersections at Broadway and and

Inland Imaging LLC, of Spokane, has began offering diagnostic radiology services and image distribution services to Walla Walla General Hospital, in Walla Walla, Wash.Inland Imaging has hired Dr. Brian Rich, who was the hospital's contract to as

The Kootenai Outpatient Imaging Center, in Post Falls, has installed a new, $800,000 computed-tomography (CT) scanner, says Paula Davenport, a spokeswoman for Kootenai Health.The imaging center, located at 1300 E. Mullan, is a joint venture of a

A proactive ergonomic intervention reduces pain related to poor work postures in office employees, reports a study in the October issue of the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, the official publication of the American College of a

Volunteer service, such as tutoring children, can help older adults delay or reverse declining brain function, says a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Md.Using functional magnetic the

Christ Clinic, a nonprofit medical clinic at 914 W. Carlisle, says its patient load has risen sharply since it moved into a larger building in the fall of 2008.Danielle Riggs, a nurse practitioner who's the clinical director of Christ Clinic, now

Antioxidants increasingly have been praised for their benefits against disease and aging, but recent studies at Kansas State University show they also can cause harm.Researchers in K-State's Cardiorespiratory Exercise Laboratory have been how a