October 30, 2018
Greater emphasis on focused therapy and walk‑in counseling, along with the availability of an after-hours crisis support hotline, has helped reduce wait lists even as student need continues growing.
Health & Medicine
October 25, 2018
Funding for the new Native Alzheimer’s Disease-Related Resource Center in Minority Aging comes from a $2.8 million five‑year grant from the National Institute on Aging.
October 24, 2018
Project aims to shift long-term care of mental illness away from Washington’s two state hospitals into smaller regional facilities.
October 15, 2018
Initial accreditation allows the college to begin developing and sponsoring residency and fellowship training programs.
More Health & Medicine
October 10, 2018
In many global regions, when a cow or sheep gets sick, it can severely affect a farm family’s herd, human health, education and finances for years.
October 5, 2018
New research suggests that even a small exposure to cocaine can fundamentally alter a delicate molecular net that surrounds brain cells associated with addiction.
October 4, 2018
Get your flu shot early, says Cougar Health Services, because it will take up to two weeks for antibodies to develop.
September 28, 2018
A College of Nursing graduate student has helped bring the first needle-exchange program to Grant County, Washington.
September 27, 2018
Researchers have developed an implantable, biofuel-powered sensor that runs on sugar and can monitor a body’s biological signals.
September 21, 2018
National Institutes of Health awards WSU a $1.2 million, five-year grant to increase rural Washington students entering biomedical careers.
September 12, 2018
The discovery marks a new way to fight sepsis, a systemic inflammatory response that can cause organ failure.
September 6, 2018
A foundation created by a thrifty farmer in Grant County is making charitable gifts to both the WSU College of Nursing in Yakima and the Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine in Spokane.
August 30, 2018
An internet discovery led a longtime Italian critical care nurse to visit Spokane to work with Marian Wilson, College of Nursing, to research the effects of therapeutic touch on patients.
August 21, 2018
WSU researchers have created more than a dozen drugs with the potential to curb smokers’ desire for nicotine by slowing how it is broken down in the body.
August 20, 2018
The air quality got significantly worse over the weekend on the Pullman and Spokane campuses. To help, some HVAC systems have been switched to recirculate.
August 16, 2018
John Stark, Puyallup Research & Extension Center, is working with the CDC to tackle diseases like West Nile Virus, Zika and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever.
August 9, 2018
Foot and mouth disease is a highly infectious disease of cattle that is responsible for causing considerable nutritional and economic insecurity in many developing countries.
August 9, 2018
A military veteran pays tribute to the nurses with whom he worked during the Korean War with $1 million in commitments to WSU College of Nursing.
August 8, 2018
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.
August 7, 2018
Zach Smith, a bedside nurse for six years and a WSU graduate, now is helping nurses keep track of their schedules, swap shifts, and share their availability.