Medicine

As the world continues to leap forward with advances in technology, medicine and science - the moral and ethical considerations of these advances often lags behind.

Idaho Matters takes a look at Chinese medicine and the influence its had on the United States over the last 200 years.

A robot created at the University of Idaho uses sensory technology to detect and compensate for lost movement.

A highly contagious disease was claiming lives, with no end in sight. Some members of the public, including a few members of the medical community were skeptical of a new vaccine. And the gap between the have’s and the have-nots grew wider. The year was… no, not 2020. In fact, it was 1932.

The Mountain States Cancer Institute in Nampa is going to be relocated and updated. St. Luke’s says the new facility will offer a more serene space and…

Officials in Gooding County are looking to upgrade the quality of medical service its residents get. That improvement also necessitates a new…

Nurse practitioner Bradley Bigford operates Table Rock Mobile Medicine, making house calls in the Treasure Valley. Bigford joins Idaho Matters to discuss…

A new report in the medical journal PLOS Medicine finds Idaho is home to nearly every county among the top 10 in states allowing non-medical exemptions…

A bill that would legalize CBD oil got unanimous support from a committee in the Idaho House this week. Derived from cannabis and used for therapeutic…

For the first time, a medical facility in Idaho will be able to collect stem cell and bone marrow donations for use around the country. Previously, donors…