Forty-one percent of teens who live in a home where a firearm is kept reported having easy access to it. Teens with additional risk factors for suicide are just as likely to have such access as those...
Gary Goldbaum was motivated to pursue healthcare as a career when he learned that his father, as a young man, had been hospitalized for more than a year with tuberculosis.
Today Goldbaum, a UW...
Customers' awareness of their caloric intake tripled in King County after restaurant menus began labeling food items, a new study finds.
The finding suggests that making such information available...
Firefighters face perils beyond smoke and flames. New research shows that MRSA, a bacterium often associated with hospitals, is present in 19 of 33 Washington state fire stations.
Firefighters and...
The state Department of Health was seeing more instances of surface-water plants having to shut down temporarily, and was seeking guidance about how to better safeguard Washington's watersheds and...
When too many healthy people opt out of immunizations, the whole population -- not just those who skipped shots -- becomes more vulnerable to disease. People who were previously protected may face...
Greater access to green space is associated with less depression, according to a new study of twins from the University of Washington School of Public Health.
Epidemiology Ph.D. student Hannah Cohen-...
A collaboration of University of Washington specialists in trauma medicine and bioengineering has led to a synthetic substance that might help prevent some severely injured people from bleeding to...
Tens of thousands of chemicals are currently in use, with more introduced every year. Scientists, however, have discerned the toxicity of only a fraction of these because the traditional method of...
When seven or eight emergency medical services providers are dispatched to the scene of a cardiac arrest, survival improves
Whether you survive a cardiac arrest may depend on how many emergency...