09/13/2017
Every day there are more than 5,400 suicide attempts by students in grades seven through 12 in the United States. In Washington state, the suicide rate is higher than the national average.
Jennifer...
01/25/2018
While most suicide intervention efforts have been focused on mental health and emergency room settings, professionals throughout all medical fields play a critical role in suicide prevention.
Now,...
03/23/2018
Dr. Mary-Claire King, a professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, sent 400 DNA samples to Color Genomics to see if its at-home saliva test could detect mutations. When the...
04/11/2018
Brain tumor patients and their families face uncertainty, a sense of feeling alone, and helplessness. To diminish that burden, the The National Brain Tumor Society recently announced a new effort to...
06/05/2018
Men's Health offers three scenarios for how many times you should be tested for a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Dr. Johnston weighs on two of them.
Scenario 1: Once a year. (If sexually...
07/26/2018
Rates of gonorrhea in the United States have been rising, partly due to changes in testing methods that are picking up more cases and also due to an increasing number of infections seen in men having...
07/27/2018
Dr. Lindlee Barbee, an expert on the prevention and treatment of sexually transmitted diseases, spoke with Live Science reporter Cari Nierenberg about what people need to know about syphilis, It.s...
10/17/2018
Many women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer have a tumor that is too small to see or feel. A UW Medicine patient describes her experience with a new technology; it involves having a...
10/23/2018
The Bozeman clinic, which began taking patients in January, is UW School of Medicine students’ first mental health project.
Roughly eight students rotate through Community Health Partners twice a...