08/01/2018
In New Mobility: Life Beyond Wheels, writer Ian Ruder chronicles the rise to fame of Portugal. The Man and Eric Howk, the band's guitarist. Howk had been considering joining the band in 2007, when a...
09/11/2018
The walls along the hallways of the University of Washington School of Medicine's surgery department are lined with portraits of (mostly) white surgeons.
One artist/nurse decided to change the...
09/27/2018
Kathleen Gilligan said her 14-year-old son wrestled with calling the suicide hotline right before he killed himself with a gun.
While he never did call, he may have felt more comfortable going online...
10/08/2018
Someone in the United States loses a limb every three minutes. The recovery process is as much about regaining mental strength as physical strength, and a Harborview Medical Center support group has...
09/18/2019
During its 2019 session, Governor Jay Inslee and the Washington State Legislature took decisive and badly needed action to address the state’s behavioral health crisis. As part of this initiative, UW...
11/22/2019
For Lola McPherren, learning about diabetes is personal. The Juanita High School ninth-grader had a grandfather with diabetes. She recalled that he gave himself a shot of insulin before a meal, and...
09/26/2019
In the margin of his thesis at his medical school in Greece in the 1950s, his advisor wrote “young dreamer.” The comment was directed at his hopes for treating inherited blood disorders affecting...
12/02/2020
Young adults ages 18 to 34, known as "Gen Z," have reported the greatest declines in their mental health since the pandemic began.
In a survey of 3,409 adults for the American Psychological...