The child displays hallmark behaviors – fidgety, impulsive, irritable, inattentive – and has been diagnosed with ADHD. Pediatric neurologist Kevin Joseph isn’t stepping through a DSM-IV screening,...
CAN you help my teenager with his sleep? This is a question we frequently encounter at the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center and Seattle Children’s Sleep Disorders Clinic. We are often...
Medical advances today keep patients alive through diseases and traumas that a generation ago meant certain death. Such progress enables people with life-threatening illnesses to more fully consider...
Most people who are hospitalized after a coronary event have a better outcome if cardiac rehabilitation is part of their recovery. So why is it that, nationally, physicians prescribe the care for...
The University of Washington’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences will soon have a greatly increased role in government efforts to improve children’s behavioral health and child welfare...
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...
Fifty-one summers after he first clambered into a truck cab, Bob Olson is still driving long-haul. In July he logged 2,800 miles a week between Puget Sound and Spokane, watching mileposts click by on...
Physicians’ disclosure of errors has been studied more in the past decade than ever before, spurring rationales and guidelines for acknowledging one’s own mistakes with patients. Relatively little,...
Brian Wansink has spent much of his life thinking about food and wondering about Americans’ relationship to it.
“I grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. Like a lot of people in the Midwest, I spent a lot of...
High school students Grace Jennings and Jackson Gode would love to see the stigma of sickness change around the world. The two 17-year-olds traveled to Zambia with an intramural club at Seattle...