About 25% of U.S. women will experience a major depressive episode in their life, and an additional one-fourth will experience an anxiety disorder.
Wayne Katon, a University of Washington professor...
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...
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...
It was 2010 and Carol Whitehead’s energy was dwindling. At age 59, she couldn’t stand long enough to cook a meal. Decades of overeating, chronic leg and spine pain, and the more recent emergence of...
Can private investors be tempted to stake public social-service programs? Yes – if there’s a way for them to recoup their investment and a bit of profit, suggest three University of Washington...
Teen pressures and anxieties have not diminished from previous generations and may actually be broader, involving feelings of sexual-identity crisis and greater concern for future employment...
Reducing obesity among children. Investing in early childhood programs. Devising strategies to reduce gun violence.
These three efforts illustrate how public health has risen to the top of the civic...
On Dec. 18 New York Gov. Andrew Coumo announced a ban on fracking in the state out of concern for public health risks. New York, and neighboring states, are on the Marcellus Shale Field....
Forty-one percent of teens who live in a home where a firearm is kept reported having easy access to it. Teens with additional risk factors for suicide are just as likely to have such access as those...