05/18/2017
Research has identified a new way that viruses keep infected cells alive – so the viruses can use the cells to reproduce. The finding suggests it may be possible to target this process to treat viral...
06/23/2017
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UW School of Nursing Dean Azita Emami
Credit: Anil Kapahi
Primatologists like Lisa Jones-Engel at the UW National Primate Research Center can only speculate about why HIV became a human-to-human virus, but they want to prevent another such devastating...
It is not uncommon for a woman to flee, with her child, from an abusive spouse, hoping to start fresh elsewhere. Some even seek refuge in a new country.
Often, though, problems aren’t so easily...
The child displays hallmark behaviors – fidgety, impulsive, irritable, inattentive – and has been diagnosed with ADHD. Pediatric neurologist Kevin Joseph isn’t stepping through a DSM-IV screening,...
Katie McCabe, a grad student in UW’s School of Public Health, highlights the rationale for immunizing infants and children early in life.
All parents want what’s best for their children. But not every parent knows how to provide their child with the tools to be successful, or how to help them avoid the biggest adolescent behavior...
UW co-authored a study of 26 families. At 2 years old; children who had heard baby talk in mostly one-on-one contexts had vocabularies more than twice as large, on average, than children whose...
A new drug, pritelivir, may offer a new treatment option for patients with genital herpes, a study led by University of Washington researchers has found. The study appears in this week’s New England...
Concussions are common among middle-school girls who play soccer, and most continue to play with symptoms, according to a study by John W. O’ Kane, M.D., of the University of Washington Sports...