Health & Medicine

With all adults now eligible to receive the COVID‑19 vaccine, Cougar Health Services is aiming to vaccinate at least 2,000 WSU Pullman students by the end of the spring semester.

The proposal was chosen for its unique framework to create a flexible infrastructure for resilient entrepreneurship, which consists of support programs that spur regional economic development.

WSU Extension educators will help residents of southwestern Washington learn if they have prediabetes, enabling them to protect their health, through virtual consultations April 12 and 15.

Whatever bad luck befell Butch, a roughly 1‑year‑old stray dog, his future is looking much more promising after he found his way to the WSU Veterinary Teaching Hospital.

Funded by a $1 million U.S. Department of Agriculture grant, the project’s goal is to measure the lifetime burden of different diseases on dairy cows.

In the Spokane region alone, WSU nursing students and faculty, working with the Spokane Regional Health District, had administered more than 15,000 COVID‑19 vaccine doses as of late March.

The clinic will be hosted in the Consolidated Information Center from 9 a.m.–8 p.m. on April 7. Second doses will be administered as part of a follow up campus clinic on April 28.

Known as Takihin, the California condor underwent surgery to help repair a broken leg and damaged knee. She has aided her species’ recovery by successfully producing 21 chicks in a captive breeding program.

Board-certified pathologist Guy Palmer tackles a variety of COVID‑19 related topics in a question-and-answer format designed to help WSU viewers better understand the science for battling the global pandemic.

WSU encourages everyone to get vaccinated as soon as they’re eligible and to remain vigilant in combating the spread of infections.