10/05/2018
Emily Dworkin, senior fellow in psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine, specializes in the mental health of sexual assault victims.
She was interviewed...
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...
09/07/2018
The picture for those who study teen suicides is getting darker, according to national statistics. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that suicide ranks second behind...
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...
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...
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...
03/14/2018
"Let us be clear: Opioid use disorder is common in chronic pain patients treated with long-term opioids, and our nation’s opioid addiction epidemic stems largely from the overprescribing of opioids...
03/08/2018
Physician success stories usually have a common thread: an important mentor, or possibly more than one key mentor, whose guidance proved invaluable.
And in this day of digital communication, Dr. Best...