03/16/2018
Mark Bathum has retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease. “I look at the world it's as though I'm seeing through toilet paper tubes,” he said during a medical checkup at UW Medicine before...
04/27/2018
Opioids, powerful medications prescribed to reduce people's pain from acute injuries and chronic illnesses, have led to millions of addicted Americans and thousands of overdose deaths.
Dr. David...
05/23/2018
Forefront is a program within the University of Washington's School of Social Work, and it has developed training that empowers teens to teach their peers about suicide prevention.
KING-TV gives 5...
06/05/2018
The idea behind an intervention isn’t to bully someone with a drug or alcohol problem into reforming, says Saxon in Men's Health. It’s a methodically planned-out meeting that's usually arranged as a...
06/14/2018
From the Air force to the Peace Corp, nursing has taken Massoni around the world, including Guatemala, where she was held captive for a time, and had to flee with the clothes on her back.
10/08/2018
"Even if the flu vaccine works only half the time, it still means that you can protect half the kids in your family or your classroom,” Dr. Fred Rivara, professor of pediatrics at the UW School of...