Seattle-King County is one of the best areas in the world to have cardiac arrest. Its survival rate of people who undergo cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR, outside of hospitals is 19.9 percent....
In his final season of high school football, Kenley Unruh ("un-roo") took a hard hit, leaving him dizzy. But he stayed in the game “since I wasn’t falling over or passing out,” he recalled.
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A study published today in JAMA Pediatrics links the use of antidepressants during pregnancy to an increased risk of autism in children.
Dr. Bryan King, program director of Seattle Children’s Autism...
An initiative to spread U.S. medical patients’ access to their physicians’ clinical notes will receive a $10 million infusion, it was announced today.
The funding award for OpenNotes comes jointly...
The potential of modular design for brand new proteins that do not yet exist in the natural world is explored Dec. 16 in the journal Nature. The reports are the latest in a recent series of...
Dr. Norman E. Breslow, 74, who helped shape the modern field of biostatistics and had a nearly 50-year career at the University of Washington, died Dec. 9 after a long illness.
Brilliance and a sense...
Dr. Sepideh Torkan, a student in the Department of Orthodontics at the School of Dentistry, has won the department’s annual wire sculpture contest with a creation titled "Dancers."
Second place went...
Research from UW Medicine and collaborators indicates that a drug-like molecule can activate innate immunity and induce genes to control infection in a range of RNA viruses, including West Nile,...
Exposure to ambient fine particulate matter caused no substantial increased risk for breast cancer overall, but higher-than-average exposure to nitrogen oxide, a byproduct of diesel engines, was...
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