03/16/2023
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March is Brain Injury Awareness Month. The Harborview Injury Prevention and Research Center (HIPRC) is working to increase awareness of youth concussions with the "Return to Learn" program for ...
03/10/2023
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Outbreaks of norovirus and Shigella often make headlines due to how quickly they can spread in communities. UW Medicine's Dr. Ferric Fang says these separate infections can feel similar if you become...
02/17/2023
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Dr. Brian Johnston, chief of pediatrics at Harborview Medical Center, says more than 14 million children across the U.S. are now diagnosable as obese – or about 20% of all children in the country...
02/16/2023
Type: YouTube
The Latino Center for Health at the University of Washington and partners are studying how long COVID effects Latino communities in Washington state.
"We want to understand how prevalent long COVID...
02/15/2023
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Someone experiences cardiac arrest every 90 seconds in the United States, translating to about 360,000 cardiac arrests per year, says UW Medicine cardiologist Dr. Peter Kudenchuk.
“Nationwide, 1 in...
02/14/2023
Type: YouTube
UW Medicine dietitian-nutritionist Judy Simon is still enjoying a bit of dark chocolate this Valentine’s Day. She’s aware of a recent Consumer Reports study that found heavy metals lead and cadmium...
02/09/2023
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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...
02/06/2023
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More than 3 in 10 injuries admitted to U.S. burn centers are a result of scald burns from hot water or other liquids, or steam. American Burn Association data shows that 61% of scald burn victims are...
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...
01/30/2023
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A bill proposed in the Washington State Legislature, if passed, could make Washington state just the second in the United States to lower its legal blood alcohol content level to drive from .08 to ....