Harborview Medical Center’s skybridges serve as gathering spots, walking routes, even impromptu staff meeting rooms. Now, three of the walkways are also immersive, colorful panoramas imagined by four...
A Northwest Geriatrics Workforce Enhancement Center is being established at the University of Washington to increase the expertise of primary-care providers, trainees and others in caring for older...
Even as life expectancy is increasing in the United States and many parts of the world, people are living more years with chronic illness or disabling conditions. This is among the findings from a...
Eighty-some Seattle high-schoolers listened as author Sherman Alexie described health conditions of the Spokane Indian Reservation where he grew up. It was part of a six-week summer Upward Bound ...
In a small-scale study, smokers whose lung screenings suggested signs of cancer nonetheless believed that they could safely continue to smoke, reasoning that future screenings would enable them to...
Mothers who are constantly stressed tend to have children with a higher incidence of dental cavities, according to a study in which Erin Masterson, from the UW Schools of Public Health and Dentistry...
The 1000 Genomes Project Consortium has collected information on genetic differences from the DNA maps of more than 2,500 people, representing 26 population groups from around the globe.
The result...
Reports that levels of Vitamin D vary by race are being re-examined. Some population studies had shown that blacks were much more likely than whites to have had lab readings that suggest a Vitamin D...
Offering restaurant workers flu shots at work nearly doubled the percentage of immunizations among them, according to a small study conducted by researchers at the University of Washington School of...
Health was a family theme, Aaron Katz says. His mom was a medical tech for the Army in WWII, and siblings followed paths of medical education and caregiving.
But because he's squeamish about needles...