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The Idaho Legislature passed the Coronavirus Limited Immunity Act during its special session at the end of August. Many balloons could have been launched on all the hot air generated in the passage of this law. For all the excitement ...

Lewiston’s St. Joseph Regional Medical Center installed a state-of-the-art computed tomography scanner over the summer. SJRMC’s parent company, LifePoint Health, bought the new equipment for $550,000 for the hospital’s cancer center. The main task for the new CT scanner will ...

Dr. Rourke Yeakley, a nationally respected health care innovator and longtime emergency medicine physician, has been named chief innovation officer at Saltzer Health and medical director of the Saltzer Health urgent care clinics. In his new role, he will help ...

The Idaho Business Review revisited COVID-19 data when the financial services WalletHub issued an update to its measure of state coronaviruses restrictions, which we redubbed the COVID laxity index. We originally looked at the laxity data in August, when we ...

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The good news from Governor Brad Little’s Sept. 18 press conference was that Idaho’s economic recovery is well underway. The bad news? Idaho will stay at Stage 4 for two more weeks. “Idahoans have faced much hardship this year,” Little ...

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho school districts vary widely when it comes to letting the public know about coronavirus cases in classrooms. An investigation by the Idaho Statesman reveals that school districts across southwestern Idaho have wide-ranging levels of transparency ...

This fall is the first time medical students at the University of Idaho will benefit from the D.A. Huckabay M.D. WWAMI Scholarship Endowment. When I set up the Huckabay Scholarship Endowment in 2019, I did so knowing that Idaho needs ...

SEATTLE (AP) — More than 2,000 people in the state have now died due to the coronavirus, according to The Washington state Department of Health. As of Monday afternoon, KUOW reports there have been 2,006 recorded deaths from COVID-19, and ...

September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month, and as the director of Idaho Suicide Prevention Hotline, I’m literally a phone call away from business leaders who are working to improve their employee’s mental health by connecting those in need with resources. ...

  LODGE GRASS, Mont. (AP) — When Lauri Dawn Kindness was growing up, her hometown on the Crow Indian Reservation had an arcade, movie theater, gas stations and family cafe along streets shaded by towering cottonwood trees near a bend ...

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