Coeur d'Alene-based Kootenai Health is joining Spokane-based Providence Health Care in providing area fifth graders a program that emphasizes the importance of physical activity. In its inaugural year in the program, Kootenai Health is distributing 1,5

With an M.D. from Harvard Medical School, Dr. Dawn DeWitt has held academic positions and been an attending physician in three countries. But now she thinks she has potentially the best chance in her career to make an impact in the medical field as the n

Up to 55 percent of women suffer from some type of vein problem, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office on Women's Health. That's 10 percentage points higher than the share of men who have similar issues, and varicose v

Big Spokane-based commercial real estate brokerage Kiemle & Hagood Co. says it's on pace for a year of strong growth in its commercial property management services, continuing and possibly improving on a several-year trend.

As Washington State University ramps up to open a medical school in Spokane in fall 2017, school leaders are getting the word out now about a program crucial to its anatomy lab studies. The Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine is expected to have 60 medica