06/16/2017
Physicians ordered or provided 2.8 billion drugs for their patients in 2013, and those numbers have risen steadily, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More people than...
08/17/2017
Dr. Jay Shendure, a UW Medicine genticist, and his colleagues have just published a report outlining a new way to take a cell census, rather than counting them one at a time under a microscope, which...
09/19/2017
In an essay, Mary-Claire King describes the lows and highs of the week of April Fools’ Day in 1981. Her husband announced he was leaving, having fallen in love with a grad student. Then her house...
10/10/2017
The Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, was created in 1997 with overwhelming bipartisan support. It provides funds to states' Medicaid coverage of children in working families whose modest...
10/26/2017
“What we found was significant reduction in craving-related brain activity after they completed the treatment,” UW Medicine Radiology and Engineering scientist Hunter Hoffman said. He studied the...
11/02/2017
Dr. Christakis describes the affects of screen time on younger kids through two pathways: what do kids experience and what are the experiences kids displace because of on-screen activity. He was part...
12/22/2017
Researchers are working on the vexing problem of a virus that shape shifts from one year to the next. UW Medicine research at the Fuller Lab into a “universal” flu vaccine uses a cutting-edge...
01/19/2018
Dr. Barak Gaster, an internist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, had spent three years working with specialists in geriatrics, neurology, palliative care and psychiatry to come up...
01/30/2018
What kind of medical care would you want if you developed Alzheimer's or dementia later in life? It's an uncomfortable, but meaningful question worth considering.
UW Medicine internist Barak Gaster...
02/08/2018
American genetics scientist Mary-Claire King, credited with connecting a gene mutation with breast cancer, is among the winners of Israel’s prestigious Dan David Prize this year.
The prize is named...