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...
A new drug, pritelivir, may offer a new treatment option for patients with genital herpes, a study led by University of Washington researchers has found. The study appears in this week’s New England...
A well-known class of drugs used to treat anxiety and epileptic seizures might provide a new therapeutic approach to managing autism. This prediction is based on mouse studies reported in the March...
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...
Taking a medication as prescribed is critical to a drug's effectiveness. But for some people, taking medications literally turns their stomach – and if a medication leaves a persistently bitter taste...
"He opens people's eyes to the possibilities of what a pharmacist can do," a University of Washington student says about clinical professor Don Downing.
Downing, a pharmacist and teacher, also has...
Chemicals in shampoo, toothpaste and medicines are being detected in surface waters and fish nationwide. Their presence is fueling suspicion that some pharmaceuticals and personal care products are...
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...
The livers of children and adults often react quite differently to therapeutic drugs, displaying radically dissimilar responses to the same pharmaceuticals for reasons that have remained mysterious...
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...