A wearable device that creates electrical fields to suppress cancer cells’ proliferation in the brain was so effective at extending patients’ survival that the clinical trial in which it was being...
Leaders of UW Medicine's regional doctor-training program expressed deep concern about a private, for-profit osteopathic medical school proposed in Montana.
The Burrell Group of New Mexico has...
Julie Middleton and Kayla McMahon are among the University of Washington medical students providing care this winter in rural and underserved Northwest outposts.
The two participate in the School of...
A device being developed at the University of Washington could help people with paralysis move their affected limbs. The team, which includes UW Medicine neurosurgeons, will receive $16 million over...
A study led by Donna Johnson, UW professor of health services in the UW School of Public Health, and published today in JAMA Pediatrics found that students at Seattle-area middle and high schools...
UW professor of global health Kristie Ebi has attended United Nations climate-change conferences since 2000. The agreement reached at the Paris conference in December, she said, was nothing short of...
Gun-related fatalities are a problem in Washington state: Within the past few years, 665 people on average have died each year from firearm injuries—more people than were killed in car crashes. Even...
Mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) has been called the signature injury of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Worldwide, more than a quarter-million U.S. service members have been diagnosed with mTBI...
A graduate class at the University of Washington's School of Public Health gives students first-hand involvement in detecting potential health and safety hazards in industrial workplaces. Steel...
Researchers led by a University of Washington biochemist have developed the first screening for newborns that can detect metachromatic leukodystrophy, a rare degenerative cognitive condition.
The...