Health

As flu season ramps up, Providence is restricting visitors under 18 from its Spokane Children’s Hospital.

Kaiser Permanente was fined $300,000 for not ensuring its behavioral and medical coverage remain at parity.

A hospital in Ritzville that had been at risk of financial jeopardy plans to continue operating after ending the year “nicely in the black.”

Much of the country is facing record flu cases thanks to a new strain of the virus. And the “subclade K” variant is likely already here in Spokane.

A three-judge federal panel has again blocked a Trump administration directive to cut research funding for public universities and research centers nationwide, a plan both the University of Washington and Washington State University have said would deeply impact their programs and likely result in layoffs.

On Monday morning, Spokane Regional Health District immunization coordinator Kayla Myers learned that the United States’ longstanding vaccine guidance for children had drastically changed.

The federal allocation to Washington for rural health care appears to have been trimmed because it has not implemented some of President Donald Trump’s goals.

When Marc and Cristina Easton’s son was diagnosed with autism at 20 months, the Baltimore couple left the doctor’s appointment in confusion. Their toddler – who was very social – did not resemble the picture of the condition they thought they knew. And the specialists could offer little clarity about why or what lay ahead.

One Treasure Valley doctor is putting off his retirement and doing something “profound” with his last year in the emergency room. Stuart Clive, who was a longtime St. Luke’s Medical Center emergency room physician, is donating an entire year’s salary in an effort to cure blindness for thousands of people. Clive works at Weiser Memorial Hospital, and starting in November, with each 24-hour ...

After a monthlong impasse, Kootenai Health and Regence BlueShield have come to an agreement to keep North Idaho patients in-network.

The best part of being a nurse for Jen Cantrell is returning her patients control over their own bodies.

Far from rotting our brains, video games may improve our cognition. But how we play them matters when it comes to the benefits they provide.

A former Spokane Regional Health District employee did not do the work for which she was paid, a lawsuit filed this past week alleges.

Even before Thursday’s announcement of a federal rule stripping funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care for minors, that care had stopped for transgender children in Spokane.

Though tanning may be far from people’s minds this winter, a new study out of Northwestern Medicine is highlighting the risks of tanning beds, and showing how they can lead to skin cancer.