Medical Health

With temperatures shooting up to 110 degrees in parts of Washington state, people are at increased risk of suffering from heatstroke – the most serious of heat-related illnesses.

If you’re hoping to get the new shingles vaccine shot, join the crowd.

Four WSU faculty have been elected to the Washington State Academy of Sciences and two others were chosen to serve on the academy’s leadership board.

A waterborne parasite with a forked tail is getting under our skin.

The WSU research marks a crucial first step toward understanding how ending long-term opioid therapy affects patients and could help identify effective alternative treatments.

Native American high school students from five states will attend the 23rd Annual Na-ha-shnee Native American Health Science Institute at WSU Spokane, June 18-29.

Health science students are getting valuable training in how to screen for drug and alcohol misuse, and engage patients in difficult conversations.

A picturesque cemetery in Palouse, Wash., is the final resting place of an important group of WSU benefactors — people who donated their bodies to further medical education.

The WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine is unveiling the newly named Tamara A. Hennings Cancer Research Lab, made possible by a $1 million gift from Willard and Patricia Hennings of Ritzville in loving memory of their late daughter.

A WSU College of Nursing Ph.D. student named a King Hussein Scholar for nursing research at the Mayo Clinic.