Health
It’s 7 a.m. Many students are just waking up. For Emily Warburton, it’s a prime time for a workout. With focus and determination, she and many like-minded students enter the Weber State University gym. “WSU’s gym is where I spend every weekday, and it’s free!” Warburton said. “I’ve gone for a regular workout, a swim […]
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[media-credit name=”Crystal Charriere | The Signpost” align=”alignright” width=”219″][/media-credit]September is Self-Improvement Month, meaning it could be the right opportunity to motivate those students looking to change any aspect in their lives they’ve been wishing to improve upon. One realm of self-improvement could be managing stress and relationship problems better. “The biggest stressor I see is that […]
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Has anyone heard about the student senate-led discussions about creating a so-called “smoke-/tobacco-free” campus? I heard about it briefly a few months ago, but didn’t think it was serious until I saw a poster on the first day of school encouraging students to voice their opinions on the discussion board of the student senate’s Facebook […]
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No glove, no love. This simple little saying is what should become the mantra of most, if not all, sexually active individuals in today’s world. It should come as no surprise, in the world of resistant bacteria, which sexually transmitted diseases were going to become the next superbugs. In May of 2009, two cases of […]
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So, I haven’t written my weekly column for awhile . . . and I promise I have a horrible reason for this. On the morning of July 10, I had an ischemic stroke, brought on by a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. In other words, a blood clot formed in my brain and then it burst, […]
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[media-credit id=13 align=”alignright” width=”200″][/media-credit]The national average for acceptance into medical school is roughly 45 percent. Those odds can be discouraging, but Weber State University’s acceptance rates are consistently above the national average. In fact, two years ago, 90 percent of WSU students who applied to medical school got accepted. The pre-medical adviser is integral to […]
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Pre-professional students are faced with many entrance requirements for medical school in addition to their normal course load. Finding time to finish all the volunteering, leadership projects and physician-shadowing can be daunting. However, a new program called the Preceptor Program has been created in which students can get a credit in their major just for […]
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Being a college student is difficult. Being a pre-med student is even more difficult. Here are eight tips to help students on their journey. 1. The No. 1 most helpful thing to do is to go to the pre-med seminars. The pre-med seminar — or, as pre-med adviser Barbara Trask lovingly refers to them, the “blood […]
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Three days after her car accident, she was still waiting for medical treatment in a Ghana hospital. “I had to leave the hospital that we were in,” said Candace Mau, a Weber State University senior who traveled to Ghana, Africa, for humanitarian work earlier this summer. “I couldn’t handle it. It was so sad.” The […]
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The Weber State University Student Health Center, located in Room 190 of the Student Services Building, is a medical resource that’s been available to students for decades. The Student Health Center is where WSU students can go to seek medical attention without the stress of having to deal with co-pays or enormous hospital bills. The […]
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