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PULLMAN – The key to research treasure was given to John Chi-Kit Wong when he was a doctoral student.
He had planned to write his dissertation on sports organizations of the 1930s. When he contacted the National Hockey League, he got a surprise. The NHL granted him access to its archives of meeting records, letters and contracts.
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SPOKANE, Wash. – Patient recruitment is underway for two diabetes-related clinical trials to be conducted through the College of Pharmacy at Washington State University Spokane.
One is sponsored by Duke and Oxford universities, while the other was developed by the Population Health Research Institute in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and offered to WSU through the University of Washington. It will develop data on whether the medication Januvia® makes a difference in cardiovascular outcomes in diabetic patients. Funded by Merck Inc., the trial will involve study sites in 33 countries and follow 14,000 patients for at least three years.
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PULLMAN, Wash. –A new study led by scientists at Washington State University shows that alternate products of a single gene help control whether an animal sleeps or stays awake, craves food or doesn’t, and maintains its body temperature or plunges deep into hypothermia.
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SPOKANE, WASH. - Researchers from the Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University Spokane have been awarded a grant from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to develop a computational model predicting the precise effects of fatigue on cognitive performance tasks.
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PULLMAN, Wash.—Washington State University veterinary cardiologist Kathryn M. Meurs has discovered a mutant gene in the Boxer breed that causes a type of heart disease that can be fatal in animals and humans.
Well known in the Boxer breed community, the disease is called Boxer cardiomyopathy. The more formal term is arrhythmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy or ARVC.
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SPOKANE, Wash. – The Sleep and Performance Research Center at Washington State University Spokane has received a competitively awarded $1.4 million contract from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s Office of Research to investigate the relationships between work hours in the transportation sector and drivers’ sleep, performance and health.
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PULLMAN, Wash. – There’s a lot more to memory than the ability to remember a story, who the President is, or what you ate for lunch.
Do you recall who told you the story? How about whether you heard it before or after the President’s inauguration? Do you remember that you planned to meet a friend for lunch tomorrow?
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PULLMAN, Wash.—The finding was a paradox. In a study involving malignant melanoma, it was discovered that increased alcohol consumption resulted in decreased spread of the cancer into the lungs of mice.
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SPOKANE, Wash.— Ruth Bindler, professor for the College of Nursing at Washington State University, will now have additional time to focus on her research on childhood obesity thanks to the receipt of WSU’s Cougar Gold Scholar Award. The new award program, established by the Office of the Provost, gives leading scholars the opportunity for extended and concentrated scholarly work over a period of three academic years.
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PULLMAN, Wash. -- College of Pharmacy Professors R. Keith Campbell and John R. White are co-authors of a new book for the American Diabetes Association titled, “Medications for the Treatment of Diabetes.”
The ADA calls the 548-page book “The Most Authoritative Guide to Diabetes Therapeutics Available.” It was printed by the publishers of the Physicians’ Desk Reference – Thomson Reuters of Montvale, New Jersey.
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PULLMAN, Wash. – Feeling sleepy?
That’s because parts of your brain are actually asleep, according to a new theoretical paper by sleep scientists at Washington State University.
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the researchers say, there’s no control center in your brain that dictates when it’s time for you to drift off to dreamland. Instead, sleep creeps up on you as independent groups of brain cells become fatigued and switch into a sleep state even while you are still (mostly) awake. Eventually, a threshold number of groups switch and you doze off.
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PULLMAN, Wash.—Washington State University professors Bruce Becker and Kasee Hildenbrand have established the nation’s first institute for aquatics and sports medicine at the WSU Pullman campus.
Temporarily located in Bohler Gym, the National Aquatics & Sports Medicine Institute hopes to blaze a trail in aquatic activity research and its effects on health maintenance and recovery. It also will provide research opportunities for both graduate and undergraduate students as well as support for athletes and students in general.
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SPOKANE , Wash.– Two Washington State University researchers will receive $300,000 over three years to test a novel system for empowering nurses to quickly and accurately identify and resolve medication-related problems for patients transferring from hospital to home care.
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SEATTLE, Wash. -- The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced a grant of approximately $40 million over five years to the Pacific Northwest Center for the National Children's Study at the University of Washington to partner with Washington State University, Oregon Health & Science University, and local communities in Washington’s Grant County and Oregon’s Marion County.
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Has it spread? That has been one of the questions cancer patients most fear to ask—and one their doctors find most difficult to answer. It can be very hard to tell whether cancerous cells have spread from a tumor into other tissues; and once a cancer spreads from its original site, the patient’s odds of survival go way down.
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PULLMAN, Wash.—A team of Washington State University scientists has devised a method that could lead to the development of vaccines against some of the most troubling infectious diseases we face—diseases that have so far been difficult or impossible to vaccinate against.
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Researchers have long observed significant differences in normal people’s sleep. Some are light sleepers, whereas others sleep deeply. Some fall asleep right away, while others take their time.
