Summer 2020
The State of healing
HEALWA brings medical knowledge and access to all corners of the state, which is at the core of Washington State University’s land-grant mission. » More ...
Health Sciences
Summer 2020
Celebrating 30 years
Three stories celebrating three decades of Washington State University in Spokane, Tri-Cities, and Vancouver » More ...
Summer 2020
At home on the range
Range Health, a nonprofit academic health network, and its mobile unit bring health care to rural areas. » More ...
Summer 2020
Stepping up her game
Washington State University alumna and assistant professor Sylvia Amulo pursues research on antimicrobial resistance and infectious diseases in her home country of Kenya. » More ...
Spring 2020
Cannabis in WA state
The legalization of recreational cannabis in Washington state and Colorado in 2012 opened a box full of questions and debates about the drug and its related crop, hemp.
What is the effect on youth? Will crime go up? How does cannabis interact with other drugs and medicines? What health claims are accurate? How does the potency of cannabis affect mental health? These gaps, and many others, in our knowledge—combined with unverified claims by both proponents and opponents of legalized cannabis—make it difficult to find the best ways to regulate and manage the substance.
To answer the call, almost 100 Washington State University researchers have begun … » More …
Spring 2020
Cannabis and mental health: The peril and promise
Washington State University researchers examine whether cannabis use provides actual medical benefits for mental health, and what short- and long-term consequences we might see. » More ...
Winter 2019
The genetics of trauma
Medical researchers are beginning to ask a question: Can the effects of a trauma experienced by one generation somehow be passed on to subsequent generations? Could the deeply traumatizing experience of surviving, for example, genocide or severe malnutrition negatively impact the health of subsequent generations of survivors’ children?
Jews, homosexuals, and others experienced brutal persecution during World War Two. Contemporary Native Americans are the offspring of survivors of a concerted effort at genocide, both physical and cultural, through the Indian Wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and the boarding school system that stripped Indigenous North Americans of their cultural knowledge, including their languages and … » More …
Winter 2019
Good medicine
Washington State University staff and medical researchers open the doors of Western-style medical practice to the medicine of the Native Americans for better healthcare for all. It also can hopefully draw in more Native American health-care practitioners. » More ...
Winter 2019
A half century of care
WSU Nursing—50 years, 10,000 alums » More ...
Summer 2019
Medicine that lands on all fours
Pets can be a vital anchor for people caught in the slow-motion disaster of homelessness. In Spokane and Seattle, Washington State University nursing and veterinary medicine students work together with the University of Washington and nonprofit partners to deliver vital care to both homeless people and their animal companions. » More ...