06/06/2017
As the number of bike crashes increases, Consumer Reports looks at the role of bike helmets in protecting against debilitating injury or death.
They spoke with Dr. Fred Rivara, professor and vice...
If your primary care physician asked whether there’s a gun in your home, how would you feel? Astounded? Spitting mad? Freshly aware of the potential risk? Unsure?
Pam Pentin, a family physician at...
Katie McCabe, a grad student in UW’s School of Public Health, highlights the rationale for immunizing infants and children early in life.
The second imported case of Middle East respiratory syndrome in the United States was confirmed today, May 13, in an Orlando, Fla., hospital. The patient is a healthcare worker from Saudi Arabia. ...
As the news media has reported, West Africa is experiencing an ongoing outbreak of the Ebola Virus. The first U.S. patient recently diagnosed with Ebola infection in Texas serves as a reminder that...
In 1999, Washington state implemented regulations that largely freed doctors to prescribe opioid painkillers for common chronic conditions such as low back pain, headache and fibromyalgia.
It marked...
Roger Roffman, a UW professor emeritus of social work and former pot smoker, was a sponsor of Washington state's 2012 marijuana-legalization initiaitive.
Legalizing pot is more sensible than...
Fewer than half of Americans have gotten a flu shot so far this flu season. This might be a bad sign for a season that could be potentially severe, infectious-disease experts said Thursday.
Worse,...
When too many healthy people opt out of immunizations, the whole population -- not just those who skipped shots -- becomes more vulnerable to disease. People who were previously protected may face...
A bill in the state legislature to narrow parents’ ability to avoid immunizing their children failed yesterday in the House. Rep. June Robinson, D-Everett, said she couldn’t muster votes, and the...