09/11/2018
The walls along the hallways of the University of Washington School of Medicine's surgery department are lined with portraits of (mostly) white surgeons.
One artist/nurse decided to change the...
06/14/2018
Why are suicide rates on the rise?
“That’s the question that’s at the front of everyone’s mind in suicide prevention,” said Christopher DeCou, senior fellow at Harborview Injury Prevention and...
03/28/2018
Researchers are testing a smartphone application in which patients are asked to supply video of themselves taking their medication. The group of patient subjects all are undergoing treatment for...
12/26/2017
Two decades ago, the notion of building custom proteins and correctly predicting their structure was a dream. Today David Baker and colleagues are doing that, with the hope that these from-scratch...
09/19/2017
In an essay, Mary-Claire King describes the lows and highs of the week of April Fools’ Day in 1981. Her husband announced he was leaving, having fallen in love with a grad student. Then her house...
08/08/2017
About 61 percent of firearm owners in the U.S. have received formal training in handling their guns, but only one in seven say it included prevention of suicide - the number one cause of gun deaths,...
12/06/2016
"When tribal leaders began to realize they had a serious problem with prescription opioids and heroin, they called on Dr. Richard Ries, an addiction specialist and professor of psychiatry at the...