[Editors’ note: This is the sixth in a series of seven articles about bioethics. Q&A’s include UW experts discussing the beginning of life, end of life/futility, clinical consultation, pain care...
From 2008 to 2012, health-care spending in the United States grew just 4.2 percent a year, the slowest growth the country has seen in five decades.
The slowdown has been cited by President Barack...
The Northwest Center for Public Health Practice has published its revamped annual magazine, “Northwest Public Health.”
This year's issue centers on the effect of the Affordable Care Act on public...
Now that smoking pot is legal in Washington, will more people take part? It's a question Seattle researchers are already planning to answer with studies of sewage and other public information.
Caleb...
Dr. Rodrigo Guerrero, a Harvard-trained epidemiologist and mayor of Cali, Colombia, is the first winner of the Roux Prize, a new US$100,000 award for using rigorous statistical evidence in designing...
Roger Roffman, a UW professor emeritus of social work and former pot smoker, was a sponsor of Washington state's 2012 marijuana-legalization initiaitive.
Legalizing pot is more sensible than...
Washington state's student athletes gained a measure of safety today as Gov. Jay Inslee signed into law the Sudden Cardiac Arrest Awareness Act (PDF of legislation).
About one in 250 young athletes...
Forty percent of food in the United States—much of it healthy and edible—goes uneaten. It ends up in landfills and produces methane emissions that are 25 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than...
For decades, children's potential exposure to old paint was spotlighted as the main health hazard involving lead. Today, workers are more often highly exposed to lead than the general population,...
(10.17 update)
At this time, there have been no cases reported from UW Medical Center since we took steps to eliminate the risk of Legionella in Cascade Tower, including point-of-use filters and...