Health

Amid budget cuts at both the federal and state level, the Spokane Regional Health district is at risk of losing funding.

Spokane County is facing a dual outbreak, with more influenza infections in the first two months of 2025 than entire seasons from the past several years and the state’s highest number of whooping cough cases.

One August afternoon in 2023, Angela Martin’s cousin called with alarming news. Martin’s 74-year-old aunt had been mauled by four dogs while out for a walk near her home in rural Purlear, North Carolina. She was bleeding heavily from bites on both legs and her right arm, where she’d tried to protect her face and neck. An ambulance was on its way.

When podcaster and physician Peter Attia published his blockbuster longevity book, “Outlive,” in 2023, he introduced a previously niche workout concept to a much wider audience. Attia claims that “Zone 2” training, which refers to long and relatively easy bouts of exercise, is crucial to metabolic health – an idea that runs counter to more than a decade of enthusiasm for high-intensity interval training.

Popular for its stimulating and pain-relieving properties, the herb kratom can be as easy to buy as a bag of chips in many parts of the U.S., which has raised questions about whether it should be closely regulated.

A little more than two years ago, Carma Slinkard was feeling ill and laid down to rest in her Spokane Valley home. A week later, she woke up in a hospital bed after crews from AMR, Spokane Valley Fire Department and Spokane County Fire District 8 performed CPR on her for an hour to bring her back from death.

A lab at the University of Washington could be disbanded halfway through its five-year project because it has not received federal funding for which it already has been approved.

A Spokane Valley behavioral health treatment center is closing next month with staff struggling to ensure its 1,750 patients are referred elsewhere after the abrupt announcement last Friday.

Two more Oregon cats died this month after eating raw cat food that was contaminated with the deadly bird flu virus, prompting Washington state officials to issue a recall.

WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs on Friday ordered its employees to end remote work and return to the office in the coming months.

In Arkansas, state health officials announced a stunning statistic for 2023: The total number of abortions in the state, where some 1.5 million women live, was zero. In South Dakota, too, official records show zero abortions that year. And in Idaho, home to abortion battles that have recently made their way to the U.S. Supreme Court, the official number of recorded abortions was just five. In ...

The Idaho Legislature is considering a move to end a 50-year partnership with the University of Washington to train future Idaho doctors.

While Galentine’s Day may have started as a storyline for Leslie Knope on “Parks and Recreation” (which also gave us “Treat Yo’ Self Day”), this Feb. 13 celebration has evolved into something more meaningful: a day to connect with friends which, as it turns out, contributes to our mental and physical well-being.

LOS ANGELES – When the fires erupted Jan. 7, burn centers across the Los Angeles region braced for an influx of patients, updating one another on the beds and staff available for critically injured people.