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- Issue of
- July - August 2009
- In Health: July - August, 2009
Health & Home
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Time to Phone a Friend
Accountability can help get you fit
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Roots In History
If your family had depended for generations on camas root, you’d be able to tell one type of nutritious “Indian celery” from another, too
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Staying On Your Feet
Keeping seniors active and independent for life is a big focus for the Spokane Regional Health District
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HEALTHY HOMES: How Green is My Yard?
Conventional lawn care exacts a heavy toll on the environment and your budget, but there are healthy alternatives
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Nervous About Nursing
Frustration and guilt can accompany problems with breastfeeding
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Ask Dr. Matt: Is It Safe for My Kids to Use Insect Repellent?
A: Be grateful that in the Inland Northwest, bugs primarily just bug people. Yes, West Nile Virus hits the radar every summer, but fortunately, serious complications are rare.
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HEALTHY HOMES: Be a Healthy Homebody
Look to the east for alternative medicine for ailing homes
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Up on the Roof
Gardening adds flavor, even in the middle of the city
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The Art of Medicine
Washington’s Family Physician of the Year still makes house calls
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HEALTHY HOMES: The Air of Home
Everything from new paint to granite countertops can impact the health of you home
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From the Editor
As I edit each new issue of InHealthNW, I’m often surprised to find an overarching theme. This time I was struck by the notion of the benefits of a “fresh set of eyes” to consider problems.
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The Cameroonian Difference
On the other side of the world, Dr. Norman James has found life to be completely different — in a way that keeps him coming back
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Protect Yourself From Smog and Soot
Clean air efforts are crucial to our health and quality of life
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Field of Medical Dreams
After Brooks Ohlson was accepted to the University of Washington’s medical school, he was told he would be spending his first year in Spokane. He and his wife weren’t quite prepared for this news.
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Mission to Heal
The American health care system isn’t perfect. But compared to Rwanda, to Cameroon, to Armenia and Indonesia, the difference is night and day, life and death.
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Learning To Listen
One preschool offers HOPE for kids who have high-tech hearing aids
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House Calling
Registered Nurse Julie Hoerner went to Mexico and came back with an epiphany
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Baby Steps
Most Rwandan doctors fled during the genocide, but Dr. Pam Silverstein is training a whole new generation
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Human Impact
For family practice doctor Alisa Hideg, her whole life has been leading up to making a difference — and making it stick
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Pacemaker Pals
When they’re apart, Spokane electrophysiologist Tim Lessmeier and Armenian cardiologist Smbat Jamalyn exchange e-mails... and EKGs