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Damon orthodontist family sees success with own system

Method used worldwide; creator's son says more adults opt to fix smiles

May 10, 2012

A Spokane family of orthodontists says it's seeing success both here and around the world with a form of orthodontic treatments it has developed and promoted over about the last 15 years.Dr. Paul Damon says his father, Dr. Dwight Damon, designed

NIC grant helps school turn out bunch of EMR workers

College says 70 percent of program grads found jobs in medical records

May 10, 2012

Technology is changing the world, and it is definitely changing the health care industry. Anyone who has been to the doctor's office and noticed the doctor taking notes on an iPad or has seen the shelves of colorful paper files disappearing from is

WSU scientist garners $1.3 million national grant

Prof at Spokane campus to research link between sleep, brain metabolism

May 10, 2012

Washington State University sleep scientist Jonathan Wisor has received a $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to delve deeper into the links between sleep and brain metabolism.The four-year project will examine why the use

Inland Imaging employs volumetric MRI to diagnose Alzheimer's disease more precisely

Inland Imaging employs volumetric MRI to gauge brain's memory center

May 10, 2012

Linn Parish

Relatively new imaging technology is helping neuroradiologists at Spokane-based Inland Imaging LLC more definitively identify Alzheimer's disease. Called volumetric MRI, the tool can be used when a patient first starts experiencing memory and to

Med school enrollment trending up

Increase in coming years to come via expansion, new schools, survey finds

May 10, 2012

News Wise

Enrollment at U.S. medical schools is on track to reach a targeted growth benchmark by 2016, according to an annual medical school enrollment survey conducted by the Association of American Medical Colleges Center for Workforce Studies."U.S. are

Spokane Valley Cancer Center to integrate many medical specialties

$7 million-plus Spokane Valley center to integrate many medical specialties

May 10, 2012

Mike McLean

Spokane-based Medical Oncology Associates PS has begun construction of a $7 million-plus integrated cancer treatment clinic to be called the Spokane Valley Cancer Center.The 22,000-square-foot structure, under construction at 13424 E. Mission,

Real Estate Roundup

May 10, 2012

Mike McLean

Axtell, Briggs & Freebourn PLLC, a Spokane law firm, has leased 2,200 square feet of office space in the Flour Mill, at 621 W. Mallon, and has moved there from 925 W. Montgomery. Marc Mowrer, of Kiemle & Hagood Co., handled the Cellars LLC, a as

BC Engineers plans move to larger space in Hayden

North Idaho concern says recent, projected growth warrants bigger quarters

May 10, 2012

Mike McLean

BC Engineers Inc., of Hayden, Idaho, plans to move to larger quarters this spring.The structural engineering company will lease 1,500 square feet of space on the top floor of the two-story, 6,000-square-foot ALDC Building, at 8680 Wayne Drive in

Stretch of Sprague to get $2.5 million in upgrades

Poe Asphalt Paving lands contract to repave mile section of Valley arterial

May 10, 2012

Chey Scott

The city of Spokane Valley has awarded a roughly $2.5 million contract to Poe Asphalt Paving Inc., of Lewiston, Idaho, to rehabilitate a one-mile stretch of Sprague Avenue between Evergreen and Sullivan roads.Work is expected to begin later this

Small Business Watch

May 10, 2012

Prime Real Estate opens downtownMurphy Group LLC, doing business as Prime Real Estate Group, has launched a full-service real estate brokerage firm in downtown Spokane.Owner and Realtor Melissa Murphy says the office opened in March at 417 W.