10/24/2018
A new statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics offers guidance to doctors and parents in caring for and being supportive of transgender and gender-diverse kids. It also tries to dispel...
10/23/2018
The Bozeman clinic, which began taking patients in January, is UW School of Medicine students’ first mental health project.
Roughly eight students rotate through Community Health Partners twice a...
09/18/2018
Perhaps the only upside of America's opioid crisis is that more donor organs have become available. Remarkably, though, kidneys from these cases are frequently declined by transplant candidates...
08/17/2018
Sudden cardiac arrest can come without warning. But a simple, inexpensive test can often detect a heart condition before a young athlete collapses on the field or on the court, says Dr. Jonathan...
08/02/2018
In this op-ed, Dr. Jonathan Drezner, talks about the importance of having an AED at a sports event, in case one of the students suffers sudden cardiac arrest. In 2013, notes Drezner, the state...
07/26/2018
The American Academy of Pediatrics said reforms are urgently needed to the U.S. food regulatory process, which allows the use of more than 10,000 additives to modify food or are included in the...
05/09/2018
A Mother Jones investigation found that many federally required physician training programs on opioids, including those affiliated with prestigious universities and professional organizations such as...
04/25/2018
Opiates "clearly have been overprescribed since the late 1990's," says Dr. David Tauben, chief of pain medicine at UW Medicine in Seattle. He weighs in on action by the U.S. Senate to consider...
03/30/2018
"The default response after a major disaster is often to rebuild as quickly as possible. This typically means replicating what existed before the storm. But why not build back in a way that corrects...