In the movies, when people wake from a coma, they typically come to, blink their eyes a few times, then carry on with their lives as if nothing had happened.The reality is, unfortunately, harsher than that, says Janice White, service in

Dr. Gerhard Muelheims, a cardiac electrophysiologist who joined Spokane Cardiology PS last month, soon will begin performing here an emerging catheter-based procedure for treating sufferers of atrial fibrillation, a potentially dangerous form of be

In an experimental treatment to direct the immune system to target prostate cancer, all of a patients blood is filtered three times to gather a half-cup of cells so potent theyre known as master cell gardens. Then, a growth factor is added

Many companies train their employees to be better managers; nowadays, more and more are training their top managers to be better leaders. Itron Inc., for example, instituted an advanced leadership training program last year that it views as

You dont have to go to college to learn your way around a kitchen.Nikki Sutton knew that. Since she always had wanted to be a chef and already was a pretty good cook, she didnt figure to go on in school after she completed high school. just

Cooks Dream, a cookware shop on the South Hill, has bought Jays Bosch Kitchen Center, in the Spokane Valley, and has renamed both businesses Cooks Dream, an Authorized Bosch Dealer.Rick Wilcox, president of Cooks Dream Inc., the parent

D.A. Davidson & Co., a Great Falls, Mont.-based stock brokerage, has lowered its estimate for Avista Corp.s earnings for 2002, based on a recent court judgment against the Spokane energy company.In a report on Avista released last week, D.A.

Cantu Investments LLC, of Spokane, has bought just over an acre of vacant land along Mullan Road in the Spokane Valley and is considering developing of a new office building there.Commercial real estate broker Dan Cantu, who is part-owner of on

Interface Computer School plans to close its Spokane Valley training center, one of three it operates here, due to a downturn in enrollment.Dave Wilson, who owns the Spokane-based business with his wife, Linda, says the school plans to vacate a

United Furniture Warehouse, a Canadian-based 155-store discount chain, has decided to close its two Spokane stores and one in Moses Lake as part of a big consolidation of its struggling U.S. operations, company President John Volken says.The at