The Natives Engaged in Alzheimer’s Research project received a $14.6 million grant from The National Institute on Aging to battle disparities associated with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias.
The new three‑year residence training program, based at Providence Regional Medical Center Everett, is currently accepting applications.
A research team led by WSU and Universidad del Valle de Guatemala scientists found clear indicators for how poor hygiene and antibiotic use contribute to colonization of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria.
Increasing access to primary care doctors by just one doctor per 10,000 people results in lower mortality for all causes of death in Washington, according to the report by researchers at the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine.
Three Northwest universities and a regional health board are collectively working to increase the number of Native Americans practicing health care to decrease health disparities and improve public health.
A new WSU College of Medicine study shows low-socioeconomic neighborhoods have higher densities of cannabis producers, processors and retailers than more advantaged neighborhoods.
Findings from the study—which looked for changes across a span of 25 years—also suggest that fewer Native men are dying from heart-disease-related events, such as heart attacks and strokes.
An Othello farmer’s gift funds the new non-profit’s mobile health care unit, which will serve rural and underserved areas statewide.
The high-tech simulators, which can breathe, sweat, bleed, display neurological symptoms, and voice pain, provide an essential link between classroom and clinical training.
The nearly $750,000 grant will be used as start-up funding for a family medicine residency program at Pullman Regional Hospital.
