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- Issue of
- May - June 2012
- In Health: May - June, 2012
Health & Home
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PET Project
One by one, local colunteers help people a world away move to a better life
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Taking The Hit
One of youth sports' most dangerous injuries remains confusing for doctors, parents and coaches
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Personal Best
Simple running tips to improve your endurance and speed
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Sporting Solutions
How to improve youth sports: Better coacheas, cooler parents and a pilot program right here in Spokane
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Out of the Shadows
After tragedy strikes, a grieving local mother hopes to get people talking openly about eating disorders
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Grown-Up Sports Still-Growing Bodies
Kids are suffering more sports injuries than ever before; experts say it's up to parents, coaches and young athletes themselves to make the games fun - and safe
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Midday Munchies
Don't let post-lunchtime hunger push you to unhealthy choice
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Repeat Performance
Working after retirement will make you happier and healthier — all while earning a paycheck
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Captain Coug
John Abraham Lodwick has been living and breathing basketball for nine years — five in Pullman (including one as a red-shirt) and four in high school in Bend, Ore., before that.
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From the Editor
As I've been learning about the problems with kids’ sports for this issue’s Healthy Kids section, the one thing I heard over and over from parents was the sense that it’s kind of a hopeless situation.
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Owning Autism
As her son graduates from high school, a Spokane Valley mom reflects on what it took to get him there
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Research Roundup
A new diet to help those with problems swallowing from WSU, looking into an average 18-year life expectancy gap in just four miles and new light on just how the brain and sleep work together.
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When It's Not Cancer
In her early 40s, Kerry Anne McGinn was no stranger to breast lumps, pain and even surgery. She’d been through a biopsy that found no cancer but stressed her out just the same.
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Dusty Old Track
There’s a stretch of road on Highway 200, as it nears the Idaho-Montana line in rural North Idaho, where the biggest traffic hazard is tourists parked on the side of the shoulder snapping pictures.