Brian Wansink has spent much of his life thinking about food and wondering about Americans’ relationship to it.
“I grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. Like a lot of people in the Midwest, I spent a lot of...
With an intricately woven wire tree adorned with a swing and a bench, Dr. Niousha Saghafi won the annual Department of Orthodontics wire sculpture contest for first-year residents. The contest, first...
When medical student Jory Wasserburger served a rotation in a Wyoming family physician’s office last year, the doctor wondered about the high number of child patients who had untreated tooth decay....
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-...
In each of the past two years, University of Washington social work professor Karina Walters has spent a little over a week trudging through swampland and battling heat and insects along nearly 70...
Nearly 30% of the world’s population is either obese or overweight, according to a new analysis of data from 188 nations. Obesity's advance in the past 30 years has been substantial and it now...
A Weight Loss Management Program opened today, July 15, at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt in Seattle. The program is a relocation of the former Bariatric Surgery Clinic and an expansion of services to...
Walter Kukull's dad said he should rely on brains over brawn for a career. So he did, coming to presenting his dissertation at UW in the 1980s and then starting a long career in the study of...
Thousands of uninsured and underserved people in Seattle and King County are expected to attend a four-day free clinic at Key Arena next month.
UW Medicine and the UW schools of Public Health and...
[2:15 p.m. Oct. 29: Updated number of dental patients to 3,400.]
Joel Berg, dean of the UW School of Dentistry, stood in the middle of the Key Arena floor wearing scrubs and a wry grin.
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