Health

ParaSport Spokane is scrambling to find another training facility for about 200 athletes by August, when the clock runs out on a lease at Valley Christian School.

Spokane hospitals are working to regain their full abilities following CrowdStrike computer outages that caused major problems across the world Friday .

Jul. 19—July marks the two-year anniversary of the launch of Washington's 988 Crisis and Suicide Lifeline, an initiative advocates say has become a pillar for mental health support. The launch of 988 in Washington was part of a national effort to improve the response to suicide and behavioral health crises. Since then, the three-digit number has remained an accessible resource for those ...

Outside the Northeast Community center's east entrance, a newly installed kiosk dispenses free covid tests and will soon offer additional free health supplies.

Q. One summer, my go-to beverage was diet tonic water. I’d drink it all day (no alcohol). Toward the end of the summer, a routine blood test showed my liver values to be off the charts, although I felt fine.

“Pregnant people are basically carrying around little space heaters in their body because the fetus that they’re carrying and the placenta generate a lot of heat internally,” said Juanita Constible, a senior heat solutions advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an advocacy group.

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers introduced a bill this week seeking a federal study on Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome, caused when newborns withdraw from opioids and other substances after birth and inspired by Maddie's Place, a 2022-founded Spokane pediatric transitional care nursery. The study and report would consider the width of the problem and outcomes at four pediatric transitional care centers, including Spokane's.

There’s no indication that the coronavirus’ tenure is ending.

Sixty future physicians were presented with stethoscopes on Thursday in a celebratory ceremony at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Spokane. The class of 35 women and 25 men will now embark on four years of exploring and encountering the medical field and local communities.

Summer is my favorite season here in Spokane with our long days and warm nights. But it also carries the distressing threat of serious wildfires. Wildfire danger, exposure to wildfire smoke and periods where we need to stay indoors and cope with hazardous air has unfortunately become part of life in the Inland Northwest.

Sacred Heart Medical Center will close its children’s psychiatric unit on Sept. 7, Providence announced Tuesday.

A year ago in Spokane, Kane Nash at 23 weeks was born a micropreemie, what specialists call the tiniest of premature newborns, weighing 15 ounces. Parents Amber and Chris Nash were told their baby's odds for survival: a 21% chance. 

HELENA, Mont. — Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized. Within a week, she asked her provider about getting the procedure done. Ferst, 28, said she has always known she doesn’t want kids. She also worries about getting pregnant as the result of a sexual assault then being unable to access abortion services. ...

While physicians have been discussing anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts and behaviors with their patients particularly after the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been an increased call to focus on how often a patient interacts with others. 

Taylor Swanson, 31, of Spokane has her sights set on Paris this summer, but not for her once-held Olympic dreams as a sprint runner. After competing about 15 years as an "able-bodied" track sprinter, she is set to go to the July 18-20 U.S. Paralympics Trials, because it was only about a year ago that Swanson learned she has cerebral palsy.

As thousands flood into downtown Spokane this weekend for Hoopfest, efforts are underway to keep players safe while playing 3-on-3 basketball.