Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care ...
With an intricately woven wire tree adorned with a swing and a bench, Dr. Niousha Saghafi won the annual Department of Orthodontics wire sculpture contest for first-year residents. The contest, first...
In each of the past two years, University of Washington social work professor Karina Walters has spent a little over a week trudging through swampland and battling heat and insects along nearly 70...
In Uganda, when a woman feels a lump in her breast, she often feels resigned to getting breast cancer and dying.
Dr. Julie Gralow is a breast cancer specialist and a UW professor of medicine,...
In collaboration with three Native communities in the western United States, University of Washington researchers are embarking on one of the largest alcohol addiction-treatment trials ever conducted...
A young donor to the University of Washington got quite a bang for his seven bucks this week.
Anders Clark, a first-grader at Seattle’s Bryant Elementary School, earned $7 for turning in Halloween...
In 1936, while accepting his renomination for the presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
Don Raleigh arrived at his rendezvous at 7:55 a...
It’s late in the season and late in the game – a time when every yard gained takes on more meaning as players extend beyond their physical limits.
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Wayne Katon, vice chair of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and a pioneer in collaborative mental health care, died March 1 from lymphoma. He was 64.
“Wayne was truly a great human being, a mensch...
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration – NASA – has awarded UW space travel medicine researcher Peter Cavanagh a Distinguished Public Service Medal. He was honored for 30 years of service...