Faculty members from the UW School of Pharmacy and the UW School of Medicine have secured a $4.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study drug disposition during pregnancy. Disposition...
After suffering a traumatic injury, many people are concerned about more than their physical well-being. Worries can mount about how the injury will affect their employment and financial security,...
Older adults with neuropsychiatric disorders may have more than 1.5 times greater risk for a potentially preventable hospitalization and up to 2 times greater risk for rehospitalization within 30...
Sperm can change their swimming behavior and even team up with other sperm in ways that may enhance their chances of reaching and fertilizing the egg, a new study suggests.
“We found that sperm have...
A large study links a significantly increased risk for developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, to taking commonly used medications with anticholinergic effects at higher doses or for a...
A prenatal blood screen for extra or missing chromosomes in the fetus might give false-positive results if the mother’s genome contains more than the usual number of certain DNA segments. This...
Depression and type 2 diabetes were each associated with an increased risk for dementia. The risk was even greater among individuals diagnosed with both depression and diabetes, according to work led...
Three Seattle scientists are among the 26 newly named investigators for the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
The mid-career scientists remain at their home institutions and will receive flexible...
Patients seeking certainty in genetic tests often receive a perplexing result. Many learn they carry a variant of unknown significance of a disease-linked gene. Such variants might or might not...
People rightfully have high confidence that one pill taken from a medicine bottle will have the same
composition and effect as any other pill in the bottle. In choosing a psychotherapist, though,...