10/09/2017
The key to reducing firearm deaths in the United States is to understand and reduce exposure to the cause, just like in any epidemic, and in this case that is guns.
Dr. Fred Rivara, UW Medicine chief...
10/10/2017
The Children's Health Insurance Program, or CHIP, was created in 1997 with overwhelming bipartisan support. It provides funds to states' Medicaid coverage of children in working families whose modest...
10/24/2017
An estimated 3 million adult American handgun owners carry a firearm loaded and on their person on a daily basis; 9 million do so on a monthly basis, new research indicates.
The study results were...
11/02/2017
Dr. Christakis describes the affects of screen time on younger kids through two pathways: what do kids experience and what are the experiences kids displace because of on-screen activity. He was part...
12/08/2017
"The app is able to be a lot more accurate and detect more subtle changes than the human eye can, even that of a practiced clinician," said Dr. Lynn McGrath, a UW Medicine neurological surgery...
03/14/2018
"Let us be clear: Opioid use disorder is common in chronic pain patients treated with long-term opioids, and our nation’s opioid addiction epidemic stems largely from the overprescribing of opioids...
04/25/2018
Opiates "clearly have been overprescribed since the late 1990's," says Dr. David Tauben, chief of pain medicine at UW Medicine in Seattle. He weighs in on action by the U.S. Senate to consider...
06/11/2018
Quan, an expert on the prevention and treatment of childhood drownings, told The New York Times that parents should never expect that any child will be “drown-proof,” even if that child is on the...
07/25/2018
Much has been made about the fact that genetic information that people agree to submit online helped lead police to a suspect in a long unsolved crime, involving the so-called "Golden State Killer."...