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A couple embraces one another.

This is your brain on love
02/09/2023
Type: YouTube
UW Medicine neuroscientist Larry Zweifel says the human brain is fast at work whenever we meet someone new, and if the moving chemicals in our mind react just right, the result makes us gush with...
A pregnant woman poses in front of a window.

Removing race adjustment from common prenatal test
02/03/2023
Type: YouTube
Dr. Shani Delaney, an associate professor of OB-GYN and maternal fetal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is a senior author of a study that found that results of a prenatal...
A doctor speaks with a pregnant woman.

Doctor makes case for boosters during pregnancy
01/23/2023
Type: YouTube
Dr. Michael Gravett, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, encourages women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant to also consider...
A woman sleeps.

Sleep expert: Standard time is better for health
11/04/2022
Type: YouTube
As Washington state and much of the rest of the United States prepare to "fall back" on Sunday morning to mark the end of daylight saving time, UW Medicine's Dr. Nathaniel Watson says we’re switching...
woman walking up stairs during workout

Study: 4 in 5 Americans lack optimal heart health
10/05/2022
Type: YouTube
Only about 20% of Americans have “optimal” heart health, according to a recently published American Heart Association (AHA) study of more than 23,000 U.S. adults and children. UW Medicine Heart...
Doctor examining pregnant woman's stomach.

Study: COVID impairs placenta's immune defense
09/19/2022
Type: YouTube
A new study published today in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology shows a mother-to-be's COVID-19 infection can impair her placena's immune response, leaving it vulnerable to other...
(Vanessa Leroy/Bloomberg via Getty Images) US President Joe Biden speaks at the John F. Kennedy Library and Museum in Boston, Massachusetts, US, on Monday, Sept. 12, 2022. Biden's remarks on his administration's cancer moonshot, taking place on the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's "Moonshot" speech, are aimed at the goal of ending cancer.

Expert on Biden’s cancer moonshot: ‘Now is the time'
09/14/2022
Type: YouTube
In an address this week, President Joe Biden appealed to Americans to make fighting cancer a “national purpose.” At the center of the effort is the White House’s goal to cut U.S. cancer fatalities by...
A pregnant woman receives a shot.

Updated COVID boosters recommended during pregnancy
09/13/2022
Type: YouTube
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommends all pregnant and recently pregnant people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 to now receive the updated booster dose, as...
Children and adolescents have experienced higher rates of sleep disturbances as a group than have healthcare workers and the general population, according to new meta-analysis from throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Another pandemic result: Our sleep is worse
03/16/2022
Type: YouTube
More than 3 in 10 people suffered disrupted or disturbed sleep at some point during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research on the sleep habits of 493,000 people across 49...
Pregnant woman receives vaccination

Logging on to promote vaccination in pregnancies
01/24/2022
Type: YouTube
Social media is the next frontier for providing expecting families with medically accurate information about COVID-19 vaccines, through the "One Vax, Two Lives" campaign founded in part by UW...

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