Movie Gallery Inc., a Wilsonville, Ore.-based video rental chain that operates both Movie Gallery and Hollywood Video outlets in the Spokane-Coeur d'Alene market, apparently has closed three of its Hollywood Video stores here.Company couldn't be
Spokane law firm Stamper Rubens PS is representing seven people, three of them Spokane residents, who claim in a federal lawsuit that they were misled into investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in an oil-exploration venture off the coast of an
Implantable devices called cardioverter-defibrillators don't appear to be associated with a reduced risk of death in women with advanced heart failure, says an article published in a recent issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine.Heart about
Hopeful that some of the same antiretroviral (ARV) drugs used to treat HIV infection also can prevent it, researchers from a network funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health have enrolled the first participants into a new, large-scale trial
Endometrial ablations to control excessively heavy menstrual periods, which afflict about 20 percent of women, are becoming more accessible for women, as doctors here have begun doing the procedure in their offices more frequently. The procedure,
Women with incontinence, respiratory disorders, and gastrointestinal problems have increased risk for development of back pain, according to research reported recently in The Journal of Pain, the peer review publication of the American Pain pain of
Ovarian cancer is a frightening diagnosis that often comes after the cancer has spread. As a result, it's the most deadly of the gynecological cancers. But not all the news about ovarian cancer is grim. Incidence is declining. Doctors are more a
Inland Imaging LLC, of Spokane, says it plans to open two new mammography screening locations this month, one on Spokane's South Hill and one in Deer Park, and has decided to establish a nonprofit foundation to support breast-cancer research and to
Deaconess Medical Center has remodeled and expanded its off-site Women's Clinic, plans to update its labor-and-delivery department, and is about to join Valley Hospital & Medical Center in launching a marketing program that will target women as at
A seven-year-old breast-cancer treatment procedure that places a radioactive "seed" inside the breast rather than beaming radiation into it is gaining in use here, though it's viable for only a portion of breast-cancer patients, providers here is a