The Geivett family discusses how they live with the dangers of concussion as both their children play team sports that involve high physical contact. Daughter Greta has sustained multiple concussions...
Washington state's student athletes gained a measure of safety today as Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Act (PDF of legislation).
About one in 250 young athletes...
Pacific Northwesterners have been on edge this week because of a New Yorker article about the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault line that separates the North American and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates...
The World Health Organization said the Zika virus is “spreading explosively” and officially declared it a public health emergency last week. WHO estimated 4 million people could be affected in the...
The Zika virus definitely causes birth defects, according to a special report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published April 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The author...
Congress' $1.1 billion funding package for Zika research is only about half of what the nation’s health experts think is needed to combat this new global health emergency, states an opinion piece...
01/17/2018
The outreach was led by nurse Maria Paulsen, who manages Washington's "Stop the Bleed" program, and Dr. Eileen Bulger, chief of trauma at Harborview Medical Center. The was sponsored by the American...
03/09/2018
The rash of school shootings has people questioning. What is happening with teen-age boys? Do they have more anger and depression than teens of the past?
Dr. Henry Berman, clinical professor of...
03/21/2018
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan today announced that she and Councilwoman M. Lorena Gonzalez will propose legislation within the next month to require safe storage of all firearms in the city.
“We know...
07/06/2018
Science reporter Amanda Grennell explores the current status of Zika research and outbreak monitoring in a article today on the PBS NewsHour. A 2018 American Association for the Advancement of...