If your primary care physician asked whether there’s a gun in your home, how would you feel? Astounded? Spitting mad? Freshly aware of the potential risk? Unsure?
Pam Pentin, a family physician at...
Faculty members from the UW School of Pharmacy and the UW School of Medicine have secured a $4.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study drug disposition during pregnancy. Disposition...
[Editors’ note: This is the second in a series of seven articles about bioethics. Q&A’s include UW experts discussing the beginning of life, end of life, clinical consultation, pain care,...
A University of Washington online education program aimed at helping healthcare providers more safely manage patients' chronic pain has received a nearly $800,000 grant. The funding to UW and its...
UW doctors who have worked with the Seahawks all season were on the sidelines for the Super Bowl. In a Q&A, Dr. Jonathan Drezner, Dr. Stanley Herring, and Dr. Ashwin Rao described their...
In Washington state's first study to examine driver use of electronic devices, UW investigators saw that more drivers were engaging with such devices behind the wheel than previously estimated. Data...
During the summer, emergency department visits jump by about 20 percent at Harborview Medical Center.
“Nearly half of all unintentional injury-related deaths in the United States among children ages...
Dr. Annette Wundes is a UW assistant professor of neurology and adjunct assistant professor of rehabilitation medicine, and practices at the UW Medicine Multiple Sclerosis Center located at Northwest...
Drug-caused deaths and heroin use among young adults increased in 2013, according to the annual King County Drug Trends report.
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Caleb Banta-Green is...
Sperm can change their swimming behavior and even team up with other sperm in ways that may enhance their chances of reaching and fertilizing the egg, a new study suggests.
“We found that sperm have...