Health

Brigham Young University’s Wheatley Institute has released the second study in its “Religion and Human Flourishing” series, a three-part look at the mental, physical and social benefits of regular religious participation.

An Alabama health care company is planning to build a 50-bed rehabilitation hospital in Post Falls.

A new clinic is expected to open next year in downtown Spokane offering primary care, addiction treatment and mental health services.

The Heart Institute Scholars Program will pair medical students to conduct heart and lung research over two years of their medical training. Over the four-term sequence, the students will shadow heart and lung surgeons within Sacred Heart while conducting data analysis.

The insurance company’s customers were set to lose MultiCare as a covered provider on Wednesday if a new two-year contract was not reached. Negotiations are continuing as the two companies agreed on a one-month extension. Premera’s coverage at MultiCare facilities will continue through July 31. This is the second time negotiations were extended as the last two-year contract was initially set to expire in May.

More than 50,000 gallons of pink and red fire retardant rained from the sky near Beacon Hill on Tuesday to slow the spread of the Upriver fire.

A beloved South Hill letter carrier got a special delivery from longtime coworkers on Wednesday.

What’s the ideal amount of weight training if you’d like to live long and well?

NAIROBI, Kenya - Decades of advances in the global fight to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS are in peril amid wide-scale cuts to prevention programs, according to a United Nations report.

Ice cubes were all over Victoria Neumiller’s body when she awoke from a fentanyl overdose near the 7-Eleven on Division Street five years ago. Her friends, who often used with her, had brought her back to life using the only method they could at the time.

The Washington state health board shot down a proposal Thursday to require greater reporting of diseased monkeys used for research.

Louise van der Weyden is a dog person. But as a scientist who studies cancer in animals, she has turned her attention to cats in recent years.

Idaho has one of the highest rates of uninsured children younger than 6 across the country, according to a new report. The report, released Monday from Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy, found that in 2024, nearly 8% of Idaho children younger than 6 were uninsured, the fifth-highest rate across the U.S. That represented an increase from about 7,900 uninsured young Idaho ...