July 2, 2018
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.
Health & Medicine
June 29, 2018
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.
June 21, 2018
Encountering veterans addicted to opioids or with mental health conditions, Andrew Colburn is changing his nursing trajectory.
June 19, 2018
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.
More Health & Medicine
June 18, 2018
Dawn Garzon Maaks, WSU Vancouver College of Nursing, will become president of the National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioners on July 1.
June 12, 2018
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.
June 11, 2018
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.
June 6, 2018
Health science students are getting valuable training in how to screen for drug and alcohol misuse, and engage patients in difficult conversations.
May 25, 2018
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.
May 25, 2018
Nearly 500 rural communities in Washington lost their only retail pharmacy between 2003 and 2013.
May 22, 2018
A Washington State University nursing student in Spokane got a glimpse of his future recently.
May 17, 2018
WSU’s Sleep and Performance Research Center has embarked on a $2.8 million study to determine how poor sleep impacts decision-making.
May 1, 2018
WSU College of Nursing scientist will lead the $1 million, federally-funded study that could influence policy nationally.
April 26, 2018
Nurses are the largest segment of the health-care workforce, yet studies have found that nurses feel disrespected and powerless in their profession.
April 19, 2018
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.
April 18, 2018
Recent funding focuses on pregnant women, youth, pain, appetite and more.
April 18, 2018
In a letter to the WSU community, student and university leaders unveil the student-driven Coug Health Fund.
April 17, 2018
Many of us have trouble sleeping. So, imagine trying to sleep in outer space.
April 9, 2018
Type A influenza was bad enough — now we have type B.
April 5, 2018
Every rabies vaccination at Lien Animal Clinic in West Seattle, results in a $1 donation to the WSU Canine Rabies Vaccination Program to help end rabies around the globe.