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...
[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,...
April 25 is World Malaria Day. Last year, 97 countries and territories reported transmission of the disease, represented by 207 million cases, according to the World Health Organization. On the basis...
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...
Health Alliance International has worked shoulder-to-shoulder with struggling nations for 25 years. Now it is now taking on one of the most vexing problems – uncoordinated care among nongovernmental...
The gun-control debate is narrowly framed around criminal homicides and school shootings, which ignores the huge proportion of suicides that involve firearms. Calling public attention to firearms'...
In 1999, Washington state implemented regulations that largely freed doctors to prescribe opioid painkillers for common chronic conditions such as low back pain, headache and fibromyalgia.
It marked...
Reducing obesity among children. Investing in early childhood programs. Devising strategies to reduce gun violence.
These three efforts illustrate how public health has risen to the top of the civic...
Everyone in the world should have access to 44 surgical procedures. So says “Essential Surgery,” a reference book released today by the Disease Control Priorities Network (DCP3) in the University of...
Dr. Christopher Murray is an expert on the world’s health problems, and on how people live and die. As head of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, he has led a massive research effort to...