01/11/2021
As Americans come to grip with a mental health crisis worsened by the pandemic, smartphone and other digital-health applications are getting more scrutiny. Researchers welcome the advent of...
11/02/2020
In the United States, more than half of people living with a mental health disorder do not receive treatment, according to the National Institute of Mental Health, which is why primary-care clinics...
11/02/2020
UW Medicine announced today, Nov. 2, 2020, that Paul Hayes, RN, CEO of Harborview Medical Center, will retire from his position on Dec. 4.
Sommer Kleweno-Walley, senior associate administrator at...
08/24/2020
Globally some 2 million people with failed kidneys undergo hemodialysis treatment. Their survival depends on being connected to a blood-cleansing machine, usually three times a week for three to four...
08/18/2020
People with chronic diseases, such as diabetes, are more likely to experience depression and have poorer outcomes when depression occurs. A study published today in JAMA found that team-based care...
12/19/2019
Atomic-level studies of the architecture of tiny sodium channel proteins, critical to generating electrical signals that start off each beat of the heart, are imparting striking details about their...
11/13/2019
Cases of melanoma among U.S. adolescents and young adults declined markedly from 2006 to 2015 – even as the skin cancer's incidence continued to increase among older adults and the general population...
08/05/2019
A team of scientists in South Korea and the United States have invented a device that can control neural circuits by using a tiny brain implant managedby a smartphone.
Publishing in Nature Biomedical...
07/25/2019
What happens when we give up?
Inside the brain, a group of cells known as nociceptin neurons get very active before a mouse's breakpoint. They emit nociceptin, a complex molecule that suppresses...
07/05/2019
To people trying to help a survivor of sexual assault, take note. Saying the following could lead to serious harm:
“At least it wasn’t worse!”
“Let’s take your mind off of this.”
“Just move on with...