Health

After the sudden split with its longtime health care contractor, Spokane County has chosen a new medical provider for jail inmates.

As suicide deaths in Spokane County remain high, all county-owned vehicles will bear an emblem asking those in crisis to seek help.

Medicare open enrollment starts Oct. 15, and Spokane Public Library has an upcoming event to get you ready.

A longtime drug treatment provider in Spokane is accusing the state Department of Health of a shoddy and unfair investigation that forced its closure and hampered the recovery of youths who were forced to leave when the state shut it down.

When couples have trouble conceiving a baby or lose a pregnancy, they often undergo routine tests, which can turn up a shock: One of the prospective parents may be missing a chromosome.

Professional skier and director Drew Peterson is coming to Sandpoint to show a short film called Feel It All and talk about mental health.

When a younger student asked to meet with fourth-year University of Washington medical student Brianna Cowin, she expected questions on what school will be like and the best ways to study.

Mortality has always captured the human imagination. Art, philosophy, ceremony, comedy, tourism, religion, record-keeping, pop culture – it all contain traces of our fascination with the inevitable. But the ways in which we have explored and discussed it over time have shifted along with our culture. This is one of the many reasons Barb Romero and Anne Whigham became preoccupied with death.

After more than a year-and-a-half at the job, Alicia Thompson is no longer the administrative officer at the Spokane Regional Health District.

The question: Is it true that your shoes can spread germs to the floors in your home and make you sick?

Windy Manzardo and her husband, Paul Manzardo, were at a Sunday church service at St. Pius in Coeur d’Alene when her phone rang. Windy figured the call was unimportant, and church wasn’t over yet, so she ignored it.

Cleanup of chemicals at Fairchild Air Force Base could be delayed through 2032 as part of a nationwide directive.

Holly Goodman didn’t take Tylenol during her pregnancy with her son, Isaac.“I never took acetaminophen because I had fertility issues and I was so worried I was going to miscarry again, right? So I never took a thing. I was eating organics. I was doing all the things because I was so wanting this child,” she said. “And guess what? He had autism.”

A newly comprised federal panel tasked with providing vaccine guidance would add new safety warnings for COVID inoculations and almost required prescriptions to get the vaccine .

The University of Washington’s new oral health training center doubles the capacity for Spokane-based students training to bring access to dentistry to rural Washington.

The question: Does cutting or shaving hair make it grow back faster, darker or thicker? What about tweezing or waxing?