Valerie Wang has been a physical therapist for 36 years, but says she didn't recognize the need for specialized therapy for post-operative breast cancer patients until last year, after she had become a patient.Now, she's using what she's learned

New drugs are in development for the treatment of lupus, one of which is likely to be the first medication in more than 30 years approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat the devastating autoimmune disease, doctors here is a that a

Can a credit union go up against Wal-Mart in a battle in Congress over credit-card fees? Likely not, but the Credit Union National Association has a much better chance of doing so.Steve Dahlstrom, president and CEO of Spokane Teachers Credit who

The recent decision by AmericanWest Bancorp., Spokane-based parent of AmericanWest Bank, to pull its common stock off of the Nasdaq exchange shuts off its access to a large potential source of capital at a time when the company is hungry for a he

Coeur d'Alene-based Mountain West Bank is relying on its strengths in small-business, commercial real estate, and residential lending to remain profitable through the recent recession and the recovery from it, says Russ Porter, the bank's president