After suffering a traumatic injury, many people are concerned about more than their physical well-being. Worries can mount about how the injury will affect their employment and financial security,...
The age-old joke about physicians’ bad handwriting is no laughing matter. An illegible prescription can have dire consequences. Electronic health records reduce those effects by taking handwriting...
A large study links a significantly increased risk for developing dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease, to taking commonly used medications with anticholinergic effects at higher doses or for a...
Science is typically a series of incremental advances over decades. Scientists may work for decades and never realize their goals.
“But then you have breakthroughs like the 1985 Nobel prize winners...
People rightfully have high confidence that one pill taken from a medicine bottle will have the same
composition and effect as any other pill in the bottle. In choosing a psychotherapist, though,...
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UW Medicine specialists in psychiatry and behavioral sciences will lead the largest clinical...
Herbal remedies are a multibillion-dollar industry. Sales of natural product supplements have nearly tripled since passage of the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act in 1994. Many people...
Studies of Parkinson’s disease show that physical activity benefits patients’ balance, gait and motor condition. Next month, a UW Medicine researcher will outfit 30 Parkinson’s patients with wearable...
Every year, more than a half-million people in the United States go to the emergency room for kidney stones. The common condition leads to hundreds of thousands of surgeries each year.
Two new...
An East Coast video game manufacturer has raised $30.5 million with the hope of winning FDA approval for a large-scale clinical trial, with a game as a treatment for attention-deficit hyperactivity...