With ongoing advances in genetic screening and discoveries in hereditary links to diseases and abnormalities ranging from cancer to birth defects, the number of people being referred to Providence Genetics Clinic is on the rise.The clinic's and

Many Spokane-area obstetricians-gynecologists are far ahead of newer guidelines that encourage them to screen for heart disease risk factors among the women they see for annual Pap tests and wellness exams, observers here say.A National of for a

A lesser-known form of body imaging called thermography, which has been said in some cases to help doctors detect early-stage cancerous or pre-cancerous lesions in a patient's breasts, has seen fluctuations in usage during the last several years to