12/03/2018
Programs to screen the genomes of healthy adults to identify genes that may put them at risk for disease later in life need to be implemented with care so that they do not do more harm than good,...
10/19/2018
The battles against child mortality and HIV/AIDS have seen some gains in the last five years, but the fight to combat less fashionable health issues, such as tuberculosis and non-communicable...
08/22/2018
In this TIME magazine article by Lisa Lewis, UW Medicine's Dr. Jonathan Drezner noted that is was "unacceptable" to him "that there are still high schools in the United States that don’t have AEDs...
07/06/2018
Science reporter Amanda Grennell explores the current status of Zika research and outbreak monitoring in a article today on the PBS NewsHour. A 2018 American Association for the Advancement of...
06/08/2017
Karen Fredriksen-Goldsen, a professor at the University of Washington School of Social Work, is principal investigator of the first U.S. longitudinal study of health and well-being of LGBTQ midlife...
[Editors’ note: This is the fourth in a series of seven articles about bioethics. Q&A’s include UW experts discussing the beginning of life, end of life/futility, 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 Geivett family discusses how they live with the dangers of concussion as both their children play team sports that involve high physical contact. Daughter Greta has sustained multiple concussions...