Two University of Washington faculty aim to develop an injectable HIV therapy that can be administered once a week, easing the regimen of daily pills that HIV-positive people must manage now.
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Mothers who are constantly stressed tend to have children with a higher incidence of dental cavities, according to a study in which Erin Masterson, from the UW Schools of Public Health and Dentistry...
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...
When it comes to spreading viruses, bats are thought to be among the worst. Now a new study of nearly 900 nonhuman primates in Bangladesh and Cambodia shows that macaques harbor more diverse...
On a computer monitor at Harborview Medical Center, Dr. Michael Levitt rotates a 3-D angiogram that maps the blood flow to a patient’s brain. As a collective, the vessels evoke a tree canopy; then...
In 2001 and out of the blue, Kristina Teel, a wife and mother, started having odd health symptoms.
“If I coughed or got up too fast, I would get severe pain in the back of my head, which would...
Research from UW Medicine and collaborators indicates that a drug-like molecule can activate innate immunity and induce genes to control infection in a range of RNA viruses, including West Nile,...
A wearable device that creates electrical fields to suppress cancer cells’ proliferation in the brain was so effective at extending patients’ survival that the clinical trial in which it was being...
If tooth decay is largely preventable, why is it the most common chronic disease in children?
The disconnect, experts say, lies with parents and caregivers who may not understand how to prevent...
Using electrodes implanted in the temporal lobes of awake patients, scientists have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception. Further, analysis of patients’ neural responses to two...