12/07/2019
Judith Tsui, a UW Medicine clinician specializing in addiction treatment, was seeing more and more patients she was treating for opioid-use disorder also using methamphetamines, a powerful, highly...
11/25/2019
Type: YouTube
It can be hard to resist a spread of decadent food over the holidays. But as much as you might prepare for gorging by dieting in advance, Natalia Groat, a registered dietitian at Harborview Medical...
11/22/2019
For Lola McPherren, learning about diabetes is personal. The Juanita High School ninth-grader had a grandfather with diabetes. She recalled that he gave himself a shot of insulin before a meal, and...
11/22/2019
Type: YouTube
Type 2 diabetes is traditionally diagnosed in people 45 and older, but incidence of the disease is growing among children and teens. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more than 30 million...
11/21/2019
What does it take to get evidence-based mental health treatment to people in need? That’s a question researchers sought to answer in a newly published study in Implementation Science.
Evidence-based...
11/18/2019
If you get cancer, you are likely to be sent to a state-of-the art hospital. But if you have a mental health crisis in Washington state, you could end up in a deteriorating hospital built in the late...
11/12/2019
Audio: Researcher summarizes the study and its implications (4:32)
Researchers looking to uncover the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease have revealed new insights from old variants.
A gene called...
11/08/2019
Supplements of vitamin D and omega-3 fatty acids (often sold as fish oil) do not help people with type 2 diabetes stave off chronic kidney disease, according to findings from the largest clinical...
10/24/2019
Type: YouTube
As Halloween approaches, people stock up on candy for trick-or-treaters. But is there a kind of candy that is better for you than others? Vanessa Imus, a registered dietitian at UW Medicine's Weight...
10/11/2019
A genetic link has now been found for some instances of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. The new UW Medicine research study is the first such to make an explainable link tracking the mechanism...