Health

Washington’s attorney general is asking a federal judge in Spokane to swiftly decide a lawsuit the state filed against the Food and Drug Administration last year and roll back restrictions on a pill commonly used in abortions.

Dave Lantz is no stranger to emergency departments or doctor bills. With three kids in their teens and early 20s, “when someone gets sick or breaks an arm, all of a sudden you have thousand-dollar medical bills,” Lantz said.

Early fall is when asthma flare-ups peak in the U.S., and a warming climate is bad news for sufferers: It means more ground-level ozone, a longer pollen season and more wildfire smoke – -all triggers for people with respiratory conditions.

Aidan McCrum plans to run a fourth MultiCare's benefit 5k, but this Saturday morning's fundraiser focus to support mental health strikes him as more relevant than ever. He works as a Spokane Public Schools nurse and is an on-call psychiatric nurse for the Tamarack Center, a local adolescent residential behavioral health site. Daily, he sees a need for more youth mental health services in Spokane.

About 1 million adults who were not regular smokers have now taken to vaping in England, according to a new study, as concerns rise around the world about the health impact of addictive e-cigarettes.

Working in a mock abdomen cavity, high school freshman Dakota Unterberg moved a laparoscopic grasper as she watched a screen showing where she placed the tool. Twelve Ferris High School students toured Providence Holy Family Hospital on Tuesday, among 100 total high school students also from Rogers and North Central going to different Providence hospitals for a career day to see medical fields.

Cancer vaccines are closer to reality as shots delivered to trigger a body's immune response to fight a tumor, said Dr. Nora Disis, a Seattle oncologist and researcher. Director of the University of Washington Medicine Cancer Vaccine Institute, Disis will speak in Spokane 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Gonzaga University on, "How Close Are We to a Breast Cancer Vaccine?"

ParaSport Spokane has a new home: the former Mountain View Middle School in Newman Lake. The group's seven-year lease at Valley Christian School ended this fall, requiring the nonprofit to move its sports programs for 200 youth and adults with disabilities. The Sheriff’s Office Training Center previously was at Mountain View until fall 2023, when a newly-built training facility opened in Airway Heights.

Four organizations are vying to take over the Spokane Regional Health District’s opioid treatment program.

Kootenai County employees now have a health clinic all to themselves with no co-pays on visits or prescriptions.

A top California health plan is set to offer one of the world’s biggest-selling drugs for free in a bid to show the medicine can reach Americans affordably without going through the middlemen that typically control its flow.

Amid outcry from patients, the Spokane Regional Health District is at odds over continuing to look into outsourcing opioid treatment services.

Coronavirus infections have come roaring back this year, prompting the Biden administration to renew one of its earliest responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Free at-home test kits delivered via the mail. The Department of Health and Human Services is offering to mail four test kits to any household that wants them. You can sign up for a shipment at covidtests.gov at the end of this month, the ...

The popularity of weight loss drugs has soared during the past few years as new injectable medications have appeared as an effective and safe solution to obesity.