Given the chance, women are more likely than men to dodge an opportunity to donate to charity, a group of economists have found.The issue of which gender is more generous has been debated for years. A new field experiment conducted by scholars a...
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A Gonzaga University professional development program is aiming to help future Inland Northwest leaders through its nine-month intensive course in leadership that the school says has continued to be tapped by Inland Northwest businesses since it 41...
Full StoryMetastasis in breast cancer and the risk of death are reduced when the function of a certain gene, known as HGMA2, is limited, says a new study by Dr. Kiran Chada, professor of biochemistry and molecular biology in the Robert Wood Johnson Medical a...
Full Storywere no significant mortality differences between the two groups, researchers found that rural women were less likely to have their estrogen receptor status tested and their tumor graded—two important elements of the diagnostic work-up for to...
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Paula Dillon Mays, a longtime physical therapist and clinic owner here, says she's seen treatment and the role of the PT change over the years, markedly in women's health.Mays, who founded Paula Dillon Mays Physical Therapy 24 years ago, now in...
Full StoryLess-educated white women were increasingly more likely to die than their better-educated peers from the mid-1990s through the mid-2000s, says a new study, which found that growing disparities in economic circumstances and health employment status...
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Spokane resident Peggy Clymore, 70, stays active with her grandson and hobbies such as backyard gardening, though she says having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease can slow her down.While Clymore relies on medical inhalers and using oxygen a...
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The Mann-Grandstaff Veterans Affairs Medical Center, in Spokane, is narrowing the gap between the rate of female veterans enrolled in VA health-care programs here compared with male veterans enrolled, but it still has work to do, says Julie Liss, 6...
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Clarence "Bud" Barnes, soon to retire as longtime dean of Gonzaga University's School of Business Administration, has watched the school's undergraduate enrollment grow from 450 students in 1980 to nearly 1,200 people this year in studies ranging &...
Full StoryEmployers are increasingly using Facebook to screen job applicants and weed out candidates they think have undesirable traits. But a new study from North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, N.C., shows that those companies might have a of online...
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Employee generosity grows with expanded options
Women find success in INW automotive industry
Careful giving strategies can have tax advantages
Salvation Army considers affordable housing development
Inland Northwest Land Conservancy opens office in Cd’A
Sister entrepreneurs support each other’s ventures
