Recently added articles from Journal of Business:
Study links family history to odds of getting shingles
Feb 12, 2009; ... Researchers at The University of Texas Medical School, in Houston, have identified family history as one reason why some people might be more susceptible to shingles, a severe skin condition. Their findings were published last year in an issue of Archives of Dermatology. Shingles, or ...
New HIV clinic opens here to serve region's patients
Feb 12, 2009; ... Internal Medicine Residency Spokane, which is located at the Fifth & Browne Medical Center near downtown, has opened a new clinic to provide HIV and AIDS patients with medical care. Internal Medicine is a three-year Internal medicine residency program affiliated academically with the ...
Software for mammography could help find more cancer
Feb 12, 2009; ... Computer programs designed to help radiologists could identify more cases of breast cancer, but also might increase the number of false-positive results, which can lead to biopsies in healthy women, according to a recent systematic review. Using computer-aided detection (CAD) ...
Doctors launch lung cancer clinic to streamline care
Feb 12, 2009; ... Two doctors here have launched a Lung Cancer' Clinic at Spokane-based Rockwood Clinic PS to streamline diagnosis and care for lung cancer patients. The physicians, Dr. Jay Wittenkeller, a medical oncologist who practices at Rockwood Clinic, and Dr. Gregory Loewen, a pulmonologist at ...
New tool could prevent needless stents, study suggests
Feb 12, 2009; ... Doctors may be implanting too many artery-opening stents and could avoid needless operations - and ultimately save lives - if they did more in-depth measurements of blood flow in the vessels to the heart, suggests a study published in December in the New England Journal of Medicine. The ...
Rockwood Clinic leases space for Breast Health Center
Feb 12, 2009; ... Spokane-based Rockwood Clinic PS has agreed to lease an additional 3,000 square feet of floor space next to its Cancer Treatment Center's Spokane Valley location to house the Breast Health Center it launched last fall. The Breast Health Center currently is sharing space with the Cancer ...
Venture here to open six more dialysis centers
Feb 12, 2009; ... Fresenius Medical Care North America plans to open six new dialysis clinics over the next year or so in rural communities in Eastern Washington and North Idaho through its joint venture with Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center & Children's Hospital. Through the expansion, ...
Using pseudo-cash incentive to encourage healthy living
Feb 12, 2009; ... Health plan provider Asuris Northwest Health, which has about 56,000 members in Eastern Washington, says it's pleased with the response it's getting to a six-month-old plan, called Asuris Motivate, that enables members to earn virtual funds by making healthy lifestyle choices. Brady ...
New Sacred Heart 'echo' probe images heart valves in 3-D
Feb 12, 2009; ... Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane has purchased a heart probe that gives physicians the ability to create three-dimensional images of the inside of the heart and to see a complete valve from multiple angles while the heart is beating. The probe, a 3-D transesophageal ...
Angioplasty takes a shortcut through the wrist
Feb 12, 2009; ... In a growing number of cases, the best route to a blocked coronary artery starts at the wrists rather than the groin. Dr. Bryan Fuhs, co-director of preventive care with Spokane Cardiology PS, says that physicians group is performing wrist-access coronary angioplasty on an increasing ...
Small firms want public health option
Feb 12, 2009; ... Small-business owners and self-employed entrepreneurs are concerned deeply about the adequacy of the current U.S. health insurance system and believe government should provide a public alternative to private coverage, a new survey says. They also would like to see increased oversight of ...
Professionals here learn about sustainable building
Feb 12, 2009; ... Engineers, architects, real estate developers, building contractors, and other professionals are enrolling in a young program offered through the Institute for Extended Learning here that prepares students to advise their employers and clients on strategies and tools for sustainable ...
UI professors to study how ethnicity affects business sector in Macedonia
Feb 12, 2009; ... Two University of Idaho professors, Harley Johansen and Michele O'Neill, have landed a $20,000 U.S. State Department grant to investigate how ethnicity plays into the development of businesses in the southeastern European and former communist country of Macedonia. Macedonia is a ...
Graham builds data center for WSU's supercomputer
Feb 12, 2009; ... Washington State University says it plans to open a data center on the Riverpoint Campus here that will house the supercomputer it uses to do contract research. It already has begun work on the center, which will be located in the Phase I Classroom Building that's used jointly by WSU and ...
Lots of layoffs at restaurants seen coming
Feb 12, 2009; ... Thousands of restaurant workers could face layoffs in coming months, according to a recent survey of restaurant owners. More than half of restaurant owners and managers who responded to a recent Washington Restaurant Association member survey said they expect to lay off staff in the ...
Peaks & Plains will move Francis store to South Hill
Feb 12, 2009; ... Peaks & Plains Medical Inc., of Spokane, plans to move one of its retail locations for medical supplies here to the South Hill from the North Side because too few customers have become aware of its longtime location there, and sales there have continued to be disappointing, says President ...
Nonprofit gets $6.6 million grant for affordable housing
Feb 12, 2009; ... Community Frameworks, a Spokane-based nonprofit, has received a $6.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development that it plans to distribute through a network of 40 organizations in four states to help low-income people buy affordable housing. The grant ...
Colleges fast-track next project
Feb 12, 2009; ... Washington State and Eastern Washington universities want to accelerate construction of a proposed $45 million biomedical building on the Riverpoint Campus here, and in an unusual step are seeking funds for two design phases of the project this legislative funding cycle. Barb ...
Centennial distributing's assets sold
Feb 12, 2009; ... Watkins Distributing, Sales & Service, a Twin Falls, Idaho-based wholesale beer distributor with outlets in southern Idaho, has bought the assets of Centennial Distributing Inc., of Hayden, Idaho. Centennial is the sole Anheuser Busch Cos. and Labatt Brewing Co. wholesaler to handle ...
Education stimulus scope said not likely to match hope
Feb 12, 2009; ... As Congress edges closer to passing a federal stimulus package that could send as much as $250 million to Washington state for K-12 and higher education, school districts and others have been guessing at the parameters of the final disbursements and dusting off potential projects they hope could ...