Health

The Spokane International Airport has less than two weeks to come up with a plan to provide bottled water and filtration systems to combat PFAS contamination of drinking water for residents living across a swath of land stretching from the West Plains to Spokane Falls Community College.

UTIs can be painful, and they’re not something people like to talk about. But they happen often, affecting an estimated 60% of women and 20% of men in their lifetimes.

The struggling East Adams Rural Healthcare got a mixed result Tuesday night with the approval of one levy and narrow rejection of another.

St. Joseph’s Hospital’s new cardiac rehabilitation unit will keep Chewelah’s elderly residents from driving to Spokane to recover after heart surgery.

Idaho health officials are investigating nine cases of serious E. coli illness in Ada County believed to be linked to raw milk from a Caldwell dairy. Central District Health, the Boise-based public health agency, announced Thursday that nine residents, including two children, are sick with serious E. coli complications. All individuals reported consuming unpasteurized milk prior to the ...

Just a slight increase in moderate-intensity physical activity, such as walking at a brisk pace for five minutes a day, may help people live longer, a new study suggests.

Famed environmental activist Erin Brockovich is coming to Spokane.

MultiCare has agreed to pay $3.7 million to the federal government to settle a case over the conduct of former Deaconess neurosurgeon Jason Dreyer.

Public health officials in Stevens County confirmed a resident has the measles.

Finalists for the next Spokane Regional Health District administrator will be interviewed next month.

For decades, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spoke with a single voice when advising the nation’s families on when to vaccinate their children.

A quiet procession of hundreds of health care workers and their supporters crossed through downtown Spokane Wednesday night to remember the nurse killed by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in Minneapolis.

Washington retailers can no longer use receipt paper containing a chemical known to cause infertility.

Long before “brain health” became a buzzword, Rudolph E. Tanzi was rewriting the science behind it.

Dr. William H. Foege, an international public health giant credited as a visionary in the earliest days of Bill and Melinda Gates’ global health programs, and who developed the vaccination strategy that wiped out smallpox, died Saturday. He was 89.

Tia Timmer was always “on the heavier side,” but her weight never held her back – until she had to keep up with two grandchildren.