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...
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...
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...
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...
The number of U.S. kids eating fast food declined from 2003 to 2010, and the calories from some types of fast foods have been reduced as well, according to a new study from the University of...
Depression and type 2 diabetes were each associated with an increased risk for dementia. The risk was even greater among individuals diagnosed with both depression and diabetes, according to work led...
“I’ve never played pro basketball, but I can tell the best player on the court by watching their performance.”
This notion led Dr. Thomas Lendvay and other researchers to explore whether a...
Researchers at UW Medicine will lead a three-year, multicenter study to see whether brief pre-operative ‘warm-up’ sessions can improve a surgeon’s performance.
The study will enroll surgeons...
Researchers at the UW Medicine, Veteran's Administration Puget Sound and Saint Louis University have made a promising discovery that insulin delivered high up in the nasal cavity goes to affected...
Physicians from 10 Washington state hospitals will collaborate on a large-scale pragmatic trial that aims to discern whether antibiotics are a reasonable alternative to an appendectomy, the routine...