Even as life expectancy is increasing in the United States and many parts of the world, people are living more years with chronic illness or disabling conditions. This is among the findings from a...
A recent report from the Nutritional Sciences Program at the University of Washington School of Public Health confirmed what many Seattle parents know anecdotally: Their school-age children on...
Statistics show that, with increasing age, some drivers fail to grasp when their faculties slip into a territory that makes driving more dangerous.
Doctoral student Laura Fraade-Blanar of the...
Individuals with depression are more than twice as likely to have hospitalizations that might be preventable with timely outpatient medical care in the community, a new study finds. In addition,...
Graphically representing data is not a new concept. William Playfair, an 18th-century Scottish engineer and political economist, invented the line chart, bar graph and pie chart.
What's changed is...
"Age is the greatest risk factor for nearly every major cause of mortality in developed nation's," UW Medicine researchers Matt Kaeberlein, Peter Rabinovitch, and George Martin, all from the UW...
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...
The potential of modular design for brand new proteins that do not yet exist in the natural world is explored Dec. 16 in the journal Nature. The reports are the latest in a recent series of...
A study led by Donna Johnson, UW professor of health services in the UW School of Public Health, and published today in JAMA Pediatrics found that students at Seattle-area middle and high schools...
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...