A pediatric cardiologist here, Dr. Carl Garabedian, has become the first physician in the Inland Northwest to begin using a newly approved alternative to open-heart surgery for treating people, mostly children and young adults, with certain heart a

Suzanne Heeren, a Red Lion Hotels Corp. claims assistant, says a majority of the company's employees here return to work faster after job injuries because of an ability to track their cases through the Centers for Occupational Health and Education

A medical team at the Kootenai Cancer Center, in Post Falls, now is treating certain brain tumors with high-dose radiation using a $4 million linear accelerator that's specially equipped to perform what's called stereotactic radiosurgery.The of

Rockwood Clinic PS, of Spokane, recently opened the newly formed Rockwood Heart & Vascular Center for a group of its doctors specializing in the diagnoses and treatment of heart disease and cardiovascular problems. Five cardiologists and one now

At least two years before her diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, Judi Sloane remembers the earliest sign that something was wrong. She found it difficult to fasten the buttons of a blouse. "I remember thinking, how did these button holes shrink?"

MTM Contractors Inc., of Spokane, has erected towers of scaffolding to enable it to upgrade the heating, ventilation, air-conditioning system in a project at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, at 4815 N. Assembly, in northwest Spokane.