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All-female design firm targets 'green'

ZDS Architects' revenues climbed by double-digit percentage again last year

June 18, 2009

As the owner and founder of ZDS Architects Inc., Suzanne Zahr-Fleming plans to weather the economic storm with plywood and a rosewood veneer.Since 2002, ZDS Architects, a small firm on Seattle's Capitol Hill made up of four minority women, has a

ALSC says mix will carry it through

Longtime firm relies on education, recreation projects, avoids speculative developments

June 18, 2009

Mike McLean

The workload at Spokane-based ALSC Architects PS has slowed somewhat this year, following a strong year for the firm in 2008. Yet Rustin Hall, its president, says the firm's mix of design expertise will carry it through the recession."This year

Designing a path through a slowdown

Architectural firms seek to be more competitive in tight market

June 18, 2009

David Cole

Architectural firms here say they're weathering the recession well—by making changes to be more versatile and competitive in a market where there is less design work to win.Some firms accustomed to having plenty of work say there're more are

Inland Imaging expands its digital X-ray database

More rural hospitals and providers in region get instant image access

June 18, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Inland Imaging LLC, of Spokane, says it has expanded the reach of its digital X-ray database into rural and metropolitan areas around the region, including Seattle and Portland, and as far away as Phoenix.The imaging company has been building a

Spokane physician heads new health-care company

Premera starts Vivacity to help employers find health-care cost savings

June 18, 2009

David Cole

An affiliate of regional health-care insurer Premera Blue Cross has launched a subsidiary that will offer services to employers aimed at improving the health of their employees and reducing health-care costs—and has named a Spokane doctor to a

NW Orthopaedic launches Spokane Hand Center

Four of clinic's surgeons have specialty training to offer care, do surgery

June 18, 2009

David Cole

Northwest Orthopaedic Specialists PS, of Spokane, says it has formed what it calls the Spokane Hand Center to help it market the services it offers to patients who suffer ailments and injuries to the hands, wrists, and elbows.The center offers a

First patients implanted with latest mechanical heart pump

Surgeons placed devices without putting patients on heart-lung machines

June 18, 2009

Three patients at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center were among the first in the U.S. to be implanted with a next-generation artificial heart pump called the DuraHeart Left-Ventricular Assist System.The surgeries a

Inexpensive drug is found to relieve fibromyalgia pain

Stanford researchers launch broader study to gather more data

June 18, 2009

For Tara Campbell, the onset of her fibromyalgia began slowly with repeated sore throats, fevers, and fatigue. By the time she was diagnosed, a year later, she had become so debilitated by flulike symptoms and exhaustion that she often couldn't get

Rockwood plans interdisciplinary thyroid cancer program

Physicians will coordinate patients' care at Valley Cancer Treatment Center

June 18, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Rockwood Clinic PS, of Spokane, says it plans to launch a multidisciplinary program in July to coordinate thyroid cancer care for patients.The program will be based at Rockwood's Cancer Treatment Center, in Spokane Valley, which has been open a

New drug could help patients with advanced kidney disease

Providence to take part in phase II trial of biotech company's product here

June 18, 2009

Jeanne Gustafson

Providence Medical Research Center plans to begin enrolling patients next month for a clinical study to determine whether an experimental drug improves the kidney function of patients who suffer severe diabetic kidney disease.Dr. Katherine lead