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More local services now are available in the Treasure Valley for people who need mental health care – from an intensive hospital stay to outpatient therapy. Providers with varying business models are working toward better mental health with the recent ...

Primary Health Medical Group has opened the metro area’s first clinic with a strong focus on pediatric urgent care. That’s good news for the Valley’s parents and guardians, who will be the first to tell you that kids never get ...

Twenty-five years ago, Dr. Susan Kim relocated to Idaho from her native Pennsylvania. Since then, she has played a major role in pediatrics across the Treasure Valley, serving as medical director of pediatric hospitalists at St. Luke’s Regional Medical Center ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — The cost of Washington’s measles outbreak has surpassed $1 million as more than 200 health-department staffers from the state and Clark County focus their efforts on the disease. As of Tuesday, there were 63 confirmed cases ...

Saint Alphonsus Health System, which operates three hospitals in the Treasure Valley, will lose 181 jobs as part of a larger consolidation and modernization of the billing department by parent Trinity Health. The changes, which were announced Feb. 6, will ...

Before there were pharmacies in such large numbers, the family doctor was the primary dispenser of most commonly used medications. These days, an old idea is new again, and a Boise-based company is playing a part, thanks to its web-based ...

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (AP) — A health-care system in western Michigan says more than 400 people used an online service to seek help for non-emergencies during the extreme cold spell. Spectrum Health in Grand Rapids says MedNow typically sees 250 ...

Dr. Jamie Faught did something recently that many of her colleagues could probably only dream of:  She gave up a conventional medical practice to start one that’s free of the rules and paperwork that go with health insurance. The new ...

Boise State University has added a doctoral program in biomedical engineering, a field on the forefront of many advances in health care. If you remember the Six Million Dollar Man, you know what biomedical engineers do, though it is typically ...

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Idaho State University will launch a Master of Science degree program in clinical psychopharmacology this fall that will eventually allow psychologists to prescribe drugs to their patients in the course of their practice. The program will target post-doctoral students with ...