Health & Medicine

A critical link in mapping recurrent mutations of melanoma — the most serious form of skin cancer in humans  —  has been discovered by WSU researchers.

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.

Nearly two dozen students, and several more faculty and alumni, from WSU’s nursing, medicine, pharmacy, and nutrition and exercise physiology programs are volunteering at the camp this year.

Encountering veterans addicted to opioids or with mental health conditions, Andrew Colburn is changing his nursing trajectory.

Ten years ago, as a soldier in Afghanistan, Erin Cooper suffered a traumatic brain injury and broken bones from a 40-foot fall. Today, she’s helping fellow veterans recover through hiking.

Dawn Garzon Maaks, WSU Vancouver College of Nursing, will become president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners on July 1.

Kristy Fiorini’s long-awaited, energetic puppy, at six months old, began regularly tilting his head. Referred to WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital, Fiorini’s journey was surprising and hugely helpful, but it might not be over.

Megan Brendal, a member of the Navajo Nation, the second largest tribe in the country, became the first Native American faculty member of WSU’s Department of Speech and Hearing Services.

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.

Nearly 500 rural communities in Washington lost their only retail pharmacy between 2003 and 2013.

A Washington State University nursing student in Spokane got a glimpse of his future recently.

WSU’s Sleep and Performance Research Center has embarked on a $2.8 million study to determine how poor sleep impacts decision-making.

WSU College of Nursing scientist will lead the $1 million, federally-funded study that could influence policy nationally.

Nurses are the largest segment of the health-care workforce, yet studies have found that nurses feel disrespected and powerless in their profession.

In a first-of-a-kind study, WSU scientists examined how self-reported levels of stress, anxiety and depression were affected by smoking different strains and quantities of cannabis at home.