Health

Catching some sun now that Spokane’s not topping a hundred degrees? Local medical experts are reminding those having summer fun outside to protect themselves.

Gonzaga University has been awarded a $19.9 million grant from the EPA to help prepare Spokane and its most vulnerable residents for the climate change crisis.

Over three decades of relentless pain, Jonna Tallant has tried about every TMJ treatment: mouthguards, six sets of braces, dental crowns and appliances, drugs, physical therapy, Botox, massage, acupuncture, chiropractic care and surgery.

Family Medicine Residency Spokane with 30 physician residents providing care for local patients faces a significant cut in those positions by June 2025, down to four medical school graduates entering a yearly cohort instead of 10. A sports medicine fellowship with one position will end entirely next year. Providence Health said the decision stems from a reduction in local Graduate Medical Education funding, but area doctors say the impact will further crunch primary care access.

ParaSport Spokane is scrambling to find another training facility for about 200 athletes by August, when the clock runs out on a lease at Valley Christian School.

Spokane hospitals are working to regain their full abilities following CrowdStrike computer outages that caused major problems across the world Friday .

Jul. 19—July marks the two-year anniversary of the launch of Washington's 988 Crisis and Suicide Lifeline, an initiative advocates say has become a pillar for mental health support. The launch of 988 in Washington was part of a national effort to improve the response to suicide and behavioral health crises. Since then, the three-digit number has remained an accessible resource for those ...

Outside the Northeast Community center's east entrance, a newly installed kiosk dispenses free covid tests and will soon offer additional free health supplies.

Q. One summer, my go-to beverage was diet tonic water. I’d drink it all day (no alcohol). Toward the end of the summer, a routine blood test showed my liver values to be off the charts, although I felt fine.

“Pregnant people are basically carrying around little space heaters in their body because the fetus that they’re carrying and the placenta generate a lot of heat internally,” said Juanita Constible, a senior heat solutions advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers introduced a bill this week seeking a federal study on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, caused when newborns withdraw from opioids and other substances after birth and inspired by Maddie's Place, a 2022-founded Spokane pediatric transitional care nursery. The study and report would consider the width of the problem and outcomes at four pediatric transitional care centers, including Spokane's.

There’s no indication that the coronavirus’ tenure is ending.

Sixty future physicians were presented with stethoscopes on Thursday in a celebratory ceremony at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Spokane. The class of 35 women and 25 men will now embark on four years of exploring and encountering the medical field and local communities.

Summer is my favorite season here in Spokane with our long days and warm nights. But it also carries the distressing threat of serious wildfires. Wildfire danger, exposure to wildfire smoke and periods where we need to stay indoors and cope with hazardous air has unfortunately become part of life in the Inland Northwest.

Sacred Heart Medical Center will close its children’s psychiatric unit on Sept. 7, Providence announced Tuesday.

A year ago in Spokane, Kane Nash at 23 weeks was born a micropreemie, what specialists call the tiniest of premature newborns, weighing 15 ounces. Parents Amber and Chris Nash were told their baby's odds for survival: a 21% chance. 

HELENA, Mont. — Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized. Within a week, she asked her provider about getting the procedure done. Ferst, 28, said she has always known she doesn’t want kids. She also worries about getting pregnant as the result of a sexual assault then being unable to access abortion services. ...