Twenty million medical scans and treatments are done each year that require radioactive isotopes, and scientists now are warning that a global shortage of such life-saving materials could jeopardize patient care and drive up health-care issued the

Expensive brand-name medications to lower blood pressure are no better at preventing cardiovascular disease than older, generic diuretics, says new data from a landmark study.Dr. Paul Whelton reported the results on Aug. 13 at the plenary of the

Casual smokers may think that smoking a few cigarettes a week is no big deal, but new research suggests that having an infrequent smoke, or being exposed to secondhand smoke, might be doing more harm than people realize.The findings provide say

North Idaho College says it will offer this school year training in the adoption and implementation of electronic health record systems after having received a $625,000 federal grant to train health information-technology workers.The school says

Alpine Orthopaedics & Spine PS has moved to a larger location here, at 212 E. Central, about a block north of its old location, at 220 E. Rowan, on the south side of Providence Holy Family Hospital.The practice recently moved to a leased space

The Stanford University School of Medicine has been awarded $12.8 million over five years by the National Cancer Institute to establish a Center for Cancer Systems Biology. The center is one of 12 recently funded by the institute to stimulate and a

Rockwood Clinic PS, the Spokane-based multispecialty medical care provider, says it's planning a $1.2 million remodeling project on the eighth floor of the Deaconess Health & Education Center, where it plans to move its heart clinic.The clinic,

Freedom Health Group Corp., of Spokane Valley, has moved from 924 S. Pines to a 4,500-square-foot space at 13607 E. Sprague.Company owner Rick Hansen says the new space, formerly occupied by Youthful Horizons Physical Therapy PS, will allow the

In an effort to take the resistance out of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, University of Idaho researchers are getting down to the genetic level to figure out how multidrug resistance plasmids increase their resistance.Thanks to a five-year, $1.7

Total knee and hip joint replacement devices that last a lifetime might be closer to reality, thanks to recent breakthroughs in research labs at the University of Alabama at Birmingham involving the application of specialized nanodiamonds a of a in