By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist It’s that time of year again. We’re obliged to parties and gatherings and second helpings. We’ve got relatives to relate to, colleagues to Secret Santa with and everything tastes...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Like most great innovations, EarthLab Cosmetics was born out of sheer necessity. Jennifer MacDougall and her mom, Diane Peterson, began looking into gentle, natural alternatives to traditional makeup when...
By Zach Hagadone Reader Staff Open enrollment for the Your Health Idaho insurance marketplace began Nov. 1 and will close Monday, Dec. 16. In the meantime, officials including Executive Director Pat Kelly recently toured...
By Lyndsie Kiebert Reader Staff Jeff Pufnock was several years into a career in immunology — specifically, searching for a cancer vaccine — when he realized Western medicine wasn’t approaching healing in a way...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist Somehow, perhaps with the transition into the Industrial Revolution and hourly wages, Americans seem to have lost compassion for the unwell. Working hard for long hours each day and...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist “Do you believe in those IV infusions as a hangover cure?” a family member asked me as he loaded some hotel pancakes onto his plate. I recommended some bacon...
By Ben Olson Reader Staff A few weeks ago, we assigned our “(Wo)Man on the Street” columnist Susan Drinkard her weekly question: “What are your pet peeves?” Little did we know what a rich...
By Ammi Midstokke Reader Columnist A few years ago I added some questions about “support systems” to my patient intake questionnaire. I had been hearing a lot of the same, challenging stories: my kids...
By Cameron Rasmusson Reader Staff If there is an idea central to the character of Bonner General Health, it’s community. Defined by the hundreds of doctors, nurses and other employees that walk the facility’s...
By A.C. Woolnough Reader Columnist Some amazing thoughts came to me on our 11-hour flight from Osaka, Japan, back to the States last month. The first was the difference between 2019 and 1957 when...
