06/23/2017
Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs), medications widely used against malaria, are safe to administer to women in their first trimester of pregnancy, according to research published today. ACTs...
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...
Concussions are common among middle-school girls who play soccer, and most continue to play with symptoms, according to a study by John W. O’ Kane, M.D., of the University of Washington Sports...
Kevin Haggerty graduated from high school in 1977 – among the foggiest, Cheech-and-Chongiest years ever in terms of U.S. teens smoking marijuana, government data says. For more than 25 years, he has...
Zack Lystedt's long road back from a 2006 head injury included moments of bliss this past weekend. Not only did he watch his beloved Seahawks win the Super Bowl, but he and his parents were at the...
Since the discovery of human embryonic stem cells, scientists have had high hopes for their use to treat a wide variety of diseases. In 2009 the National Institutes of Health established funding...
A University of Washington online education program aimed at helping healthcare providers more safely manage patients' chronic pain has received a nearly $800,000 grant. The funding to UW and its...
Dr. Gabor Maté, the renowned author on addictions, last week told more than 100 UW health-sciences students that the educational framework they are being taught is woefully inadequate because it...
University of Washington researchers have created a line of human embryonic stem cells with the ability to develop into a far broader range of tissues than most existing cell lines.
“These cells...
Two proteins that control how cells break down glucose play a key role in forming human stem cells, University of Washington researchers have found. The finding has implications for future work in...