Millions of women experience a loss of bladder control, or urinary incontinence, in their lifetime. It's a common and often embarrassing problem that many patients don't bring up with their doctorsand when they do, it might be mentioned as a
A minimally invasive procedure to repair vertebrae fractures common in osteoporosis sufferers has become slightly less invasive at Valley Hospital.Called vertebroplasty, the procedure involves injecting a special bone cement into compression in
Varicose veins, a disorder typically occurring in the legs when a vein malfunctions, more often affect women than men and can raise medical concerns, including fatigue and pain, say health care professionals in Spokane.The vein disease occurs in
Spokane-based Leone & Keeble Inc. has started construction under a $15.6 million contract to build a 350-bed residence hall at Eastern Washington University in the northwest area of the school's Cheney campus. The five-story, 101,000-square-foot
Spokane County will auction tax-foreclosed properties online for the first time, with the auction set for Dec. 3, says Mike Volz, the county's chief deputy treasurer.The county treasurer's office has entered a contract with Silver Spring, Inc. a
The cost of key construction materials increased in August and in a year-to-year comparison, resuming a trend that has forced contractors to pay more for materials even as competitive pressures restrain prices for finished projects, says an of this
The city of Spokane plans to spend a combined $776,000 on two road-construction projects that are scheduled to start in October and to be completed in five to six weeks. Projects will include improving and extending a street on Spokane's South a
Barbara and Ron Wachter, owners of the Hilltop Inn, in Pullman, Wash., have launched a $7.6 million expansion of the 59-room hotel that will nearly double the number of guest rooms it offers.The project will include construction of a 56-room and
The Spokane office of Hill International Inc., a New Jersey-based construction management company, says it recently completed oversight of a quick-turn project that involved erecting identical freestanding classroom additions at four East Valley in