April 25 is World Malaria Day. Last year, 97 countries and territories reported transmission of the disease, represented by 207 million cases, according to the World Health Organization. On the basis...
[See related Q&A with Dr. Eileen Bulger from July 28.]
Researchers at Harborview Medical Center are taking part in a national study to determine what role tranexamic acid plays in decreasing...
Patients who sustain mild traumatic brain injuries can benefit significantly from a 20-minute conversation with a social worker before being discharged from a hospital, according to a recent study...
Nearly 30% of the world’s population is either obese or overweight, according to a new analysis of data from 188 nations. Obesity's advance in the past 30 years has been substantial and it now...
University of Washington students are helping to improve the health of women and children around the world through the Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children.
On June...
Before he was Dr. William Foege, the University of Washington scientist who helped eradicate smallpox, he was Bill, a mischief-making young man from Colville in northeast Washington.
His fondness...
Editor's note: The headline and story have been corrected and clarified to convey that the study's measure was the proportion of head injuries among all bicycle-related injuries in the cities studied...
UW joined representatives from 208 universities and 55 countries in May at the 5th Annual Consortium of Universities for Global Health meeting in Washington, D.C.
The National Institutes of Health...
Dr. Annette Wundes is a UW assistant professor of neurology and adjunct assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine, and practices at the UW Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Center located at Northwest...
A variation in the CHD8 gene has a strong likelihood of leading to a type of autism accompanied by digestive problems, a larger head and wide-set eyes.
“We finally got a clear-cut case of an autism-...