The University of Washington, in collaboration with Forefront, has been awarded a three-year, $300,000 suicide-prevention grant to launch Husky Help & Hope, a comprehensive suicide-prevention...
Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care ...
UW doctors who have worked with the Seahawks all season were on the sidelines for the Super Bowl. In a Q&A, Dr. Jonathan Drezner, Dr. Stanley Herring, and Dr. Ashwin Rao described their...
Saloni Parikh combines a passion for public health with talent for computer programming. As an undergraduate in the interdisciplinary honors program, she's already making an impact. For a global...
Suicide prevention in Washington state took a significant step forward March 27 when Gov. Jay Inslee signed House Bill 2315, a bill that requires basic training in suicide assessment, treatment, and...
Timothy Thornton is using biostatistics to help identify genetic risk factors of the Hispanic population, which is much more diverse than the typically studied European populations.
Thornton, a UW...
Walter Kukull's dad said he should rely on brains over brawn for a career. So he did, coming to presenting his dissertation at UW in the 1980s and then starting a long career in the study of...
In Uganda, when a woman feels a lump in her breast, she often feels resigned to getting breast cancer and dying.
Dr. Julie Gralow is a breast cancer specialist and a UW professor of medicine,...
In July, UW graduate Jillian Pintye accepted a prestigious Young Investigator Award at the 20th International AIDS Conference. Pintye, who studied epidemiology and global health in the School of...
[10/1: The headline has been clarified. The reference to Dr. Joseph Goldstein's academic affiliation has been clarified.]
At age 91, Arno Motulsky, UW professor emeritus of medicine and genome...