A smartphone app that measures the user's heart rate is not only a popular feature with consumers, but it sparked an idea for a Worcester Polytechnic Institute researcher who now is turning such phones, and eventually tablet devices, into medical a

More than a third of Idaho women over age 40 didn't receive breast cancer screening in the last two years, putting Idaho in last place nationally in cancer screening mammogram rates. The Cancer Data Registry of Idaho estimates that more than in

Open enrollment occurs at a time of year when most Washington employees can review and select their benefits package for the following year. It is especially important for employees to know their companies' open enrollment schedule, which typically

Fresenius Medical Care, the Waltham, Mass.-based renal therapy provider, plans to open a dialysis center in Deer Park, Wash., that is to begin accepting patients late this year or early next year.The Fresenius Medical Care Panorama Dialysis is a

Eastern State Hospital, the state-run inpatient psychiatric facility at Medical Lake, has issued a request for qualifications for an architect to provide design services for two projects valued at a combined total of $1.3 million.Projects the of

St. Luke's Rehabilitation Institute, in Spokane, has hired a new hospital administrator following a national search. Ulrike Berzau started at St. Luke's at the beginning of this month.Berzau specializes in inpatient rehabilitation, ambulatory at