05/14/2019
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Zackery Lystedt Law, the first comprehensive mandate in the United States aimed to reduce concussion risk and protect student athletes after head injuries.
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03/08/2019
A conversation with Nathaniel Watson about daylight saving time certainly will not put you to sleep.
In short, Watson hates daylight saving time - a creation, he noted, of post-WWI fuel saving...
03/07/2019
Type: YouTube
Every time we "spring forward," doctors say, the interruption in sleep affects our health. Studies have shown that stroke and heart attack risks increase in the near term after the time change.
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12/03/2018
Programs to screen the genomes of healthy adults to identify genes that may put them at risk for disease later in life need to be implemented with care so that they do not do more harm than good,...
10/19/2018
The battles against child mortality and HIV/AIDS have seen some gains in the last five years, but the fight to combat less fashionable health issues, such as tuberculosis and non-communicable...
10/11/2018
The newly appointed chair of the UW School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics will also serve as the associate dean of the UW medical school and as senior vice president/chief academic officer...
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...
07/06/2018
Science reporter Amanda Grennell explores the current status of Zika research and outbreak monitoring in a article today on the PBS NewsHour. A 2018 American Association for the Advancement of...
06/29/2018
The new Department of Health Metrics Sciences at the University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle will officially start July 1 with Dr. Christopher J.L. Murray, who is recognized globally...
11/29/2017
Type: MediaAMP
A provocative study and accompanying commentary published recently in The Lancet has drawn rebuttals from cardiologists. “I think the conclusions drawn in the Lancet’s editorial are overstated,”...