Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care ...
Daniela Witten, assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, has been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list for the third year in a row. The Forbes list...
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...
Timothy Thornton is using biostatistics to help identify genetic risk factors of the Hispanic population, which is much more diverse than the typically studied European populations.
Thornton, a UW...
In July, UW graduate Jillian Pintye accepted a prestigious Young Investigator Award at the 20th International AIDS Conference. Pintye, who studied epidemiology and global health in the School of...
[Editor's note: Guy Maddison and his family have relocated and he no longer works at Harborview Medical Center.]
In blue scrubs, Guy Maddison cradles a cup of cafeteria-grade coffee and offers a warm...
When people talk about legends at the University of Washington, Roger Rosenblatt is one of them.
After graduation from Harvard Medical School, Rosenblatt moved to Seattle where he became one the...
It’s late in the season and late in the game – a time when every yard gained takes on more meaning as players extend beyond their physical limits.
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Emily...
Nurses, by dint of their jobs, are present in crises and other circumstances that require care and comfort of patients and their families. Seattle Met magazine tells vignettes of six local nurses,...
Dr. Stu Farber, a founder of UW Medicine's palliative care service who helped patients and their families prepare for life’s end, died Friday at age 67. He had battled acute myelogenous leukemia....