11/12/2019
Audio: Researcher summarizes the study and its implications (4:32)
Researchers looking to uncover the mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease have revealed new insights from old variants.
A gene called...
10/11/2019
A genetic link has now been found for some instances of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, or SIDS. The new UW Medicine research study is the first such to make an explainable link tracking the mechanism...
07/16/2019
A $4.2 million grant to UW Medicine’s Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center (HIPRC) will support projects focused on prescription-opioid abuse, suicide, older adult falls, and pediatric...
06/19/2019
Almost 500,000 Americans die each year from cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly stops beating.
People experiencing cardiac arrest will suddenly become unresponsive and either stop breathing or...
05/02/2019
Mental health researchers behind nowmattersnow.org have demonstrated that the site could be beneficial in decreasing suicidal thoughts.
Researchers asked more than 3,000 website visitors how they...
04/16/2019
The most comprehensive view so far of the spectrum of genetic differences between individuals has been obtained using a suite of advanced genomic technologies. Routine sequencing and commonly used...
03/06/2019
Children whose mothers were hospitalized with an infection during pregnancy may be at increased risk for autism, depression and suicide later in life, according to a new study by researchers at the...
02/14/2019
A soldier named Jerome Motto received caring letters from home in World War II. They helped boost his spirits and later led to one of the nation’s first successful suicide interventions.
Today, with...
10/09/2018
Downloadable soundbites with Dr. Hunter Wessells
For the first time, a team of researchers has found a specific place in the human genome where variations can raise a person’s risk of erectile...
09/26/2018
The Northwest Genomics Center at the University of Washington in Seattle will become one of three genome centers around the country for the National Institutes of Health All of Us Research Program. ...