04/18/2018
While older drivers as a group have a relatively high rate of car crashes, few validated tools exist to evaluate an individual’s crash risk and to help older adults make the life-altering decision to...
04/25/2018
With the return of spring, open windows become a common sight around Seattle. As of 2015, about 79 percent of the city's rental units had no primary air conditioning, according to the U.S. Census...
01/07/2019
A martial-arts maneuver can reduce blood loss in someone who has sustained a significant wound, suggests a small, proof-of-concept study.
The findings were published Jan. 6 in Emergency Medicine...
04/15/2019
Intimate-partner homicide among teens does occur and 90 percent of the victims are girls, according to a new study published in JAMA Pediatrics.
“This is a public health issue that should be taken...
07/05/2019
To people trying to help a survivor of sexual assault, take note. Saying the following could lead to serious harm:
“At least it wasn’t worse!”
“Let’s take your mind off of this.”
“Just move on with...
08/23/2017
Type: MediaAMP
(Downloadable video, script) Dr. Nathaniel Watson talks about how parents can help elementary-age kids and teenagers reset sleep schedules. Children ages 6-12, he said, need nine to 12 hours of...
12/27/2017
Type: MediaAMP
The most common burn injuries over the holidays stem from cooking accidents, said Dr. Nicole Gibran of the UW Medicine Regional Burn Center at Harborview.
"People get distracted and leave their pots...
04/25/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Dr. Brian Johnston, chief of pediatrics at Harborview Medical Center and professor of pediatrics at the UW School of Medicine, calls on parents to take steps to prevent young children from falling...
03/09/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Henry Berman, a clinical professor of pediatrics at the University of Washington School of Medicine, discusses how a changing job market, violent video games, the media, and the availability of guns...
06/25/2018
Type: MediaAMP
"We don't actually need research to know that it would be terrifying for children, especially those children; they're strangers in a strange land, they don't speak the language, they don't know what'...