High school students Grace Jennings and Jackson Gode would love to see the stigma of sickness change around the world. The two 17-year-olds traveled to Zambia with an intramural club at Seattle...
Qingcheng Mao and Jashvant Unadkat, faculty members of the School of Pharmacy, recently learned that a 2005 article they published in the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)...
The percentage of the global population that smokes every day has decreased, but the number of cigarette smokers worldwide has increased due to population growth, according to new research from UW's...
Increasing health expenditures by $5 per person per year over the next two decades in 74 countries could yield up to nine times that value in economic and social benefits, according to a recent study...
In February, one of the largest-ever studies of mammograms yielded findings that might lead women to reconsider the value of those screenings. Joann Elmore, a University of Washington physician and...
Eleven individuals and programs recognized at Seattle Business’ 2014 Leaders in HealthCare awards ceremony Monday, Feb. 24, brought honor to the UW through their achievements.
As the magazine stated...
When you ask business students from around the world for their ideas to alleviate poverty, you unleash capitalism with passion.
Teams from the United States, Bangladesh and The Philippines won $40,...
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...
As the repression of sexual minorities in many nations around the world becomes visible, the call for social justice and equality is also gaining strength.
"Uncensored: Gender, Sexuality & Social...
When Sherwin Shinn of Gig Harbor, Wash., traveled to Uganda a few years ago, he didn’t go for the sightseeing.
“We set up our portable equipment in an open-air shed on the edge of a volcanic crater-...