10/03/2018
Young people might think everyone drinks alcohol. But that's far from the truth, said Mary Larimer, professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences and psychology, and director of the Center for the...
08/02/2018
The so-called “hot-water challenge” making news headlines leaves Dr. Sam Mandell incredulous.
“It’s a really bad idea. People should know that hot water will burn you,” said Mandell, a UW Medicine...
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...
12/27/2017
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The most common burn injuries over the holidays stem from cooking accidents, said Dr. Nicole Gibran of the UW Medicine Regional Burn Center at Harborview.
"People get distracted and leave their pots...
06/11/2017
Your dog might snarl or your cat hiss at a threat to your safety.
Sometimes pets issue a quieter warning when your household or neighborhood is under a different kind of attack: a toxic exposure...
Dedra Buchwald came to the UW as a pioneer in chronic fatigue research. Her passion for cross-cultural work soon led her to explore Native American health issues. Today she directs the Center for...
In each of the past two years, University of Washington social work professor Karina Walters has spent a little over a week trudging through swampland and battling heat and insects along nearly 70...
Now that smoking pot is legal in Washington, will more people take part? It's a question Seattle researchers are already planning to answer with studies of sewage and other public information.
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In collaboration with three Native communities in the western United States, University of Washington researchers are embarking on one of the largest alcohol addiction-treatment trials ever conducted...
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...