diabetes

Diabetes prevention, screenings available statewide

PULLMAN, Wash. – Washington State University Extension will offer a diabetes prevention program at nine locations throughout the state. And it will team with the state healthcare authority to host three free diabetes screening events: Nov. 4 and 19 at WSU Pullman and Dec. 4 at WSU Vancouver.

Rock Doc: What antibiotics might be doing to us

By E. Kirsten Peters, College of Agricultural, Human & Natural Resource Sciences PULLMAN, Wash. – It’s astonishing to think about, but when my grandfather was born one in five children didn’t live to see their fifth birthday, in large part due to endemic and epidemic diseases. Today that’s all changed.

NSF awards support grad students in pharmacy research

By Lorraine Nelson, College of Pharmacy SPOKANE, Wash. – The National Science Foundation has awarded three years of research support to two doctoral students in the College of Pharmacy at the Washington State University health sciences campus in Spokane.

John White promoted to department chair

SPOKANE, Wash. – John R. White Jr. has been promoted to chair of the Department of Pharmacotherapy at the Washington State University College of Pharmacy. He is a licensed pharmacist and has been extensively involved in diabetes research and education since 1987. He also is involved in development of a nasal formulation to be used […]

Minorities less likely to receive diabetes test

SPOKANE – Ethnic and racial minorities bear a disproportionate share of America’s diabetes epidemic but are significantly less likely than whites to receive a commonly used test to monitor control of blood glucose, WSU researchers said. Neumiller In a commentary for the current issue of The Diabetes Educator, Assistant Professor of Pharmacotherapy Joshua Jon Neumiller and […]