Faculty members from the UW School of Pharmacy and the UW School of Medicine have secured a $4.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study drug disposition during pregnancy. Disposition...
Women who received collaborative care for depression at two UW Medicine obstetrics and gynecology clinics showed fewer symptoms after treatment than women receiving usual depression care in the same...
Sperm can change their swimming behavior and even team up with other sperm in ways that may enhance their chances of reaching and fertilizing the egg, a new study suggests.
“We found that sperm have...
A prenatal blood screen for extra or missing chromosomes in the fetus might give false-positive results if the mother’s genome contains more than the usual number of certain DNA segments. This...
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...
When UW Medicine researcher Kristina Adams Waldorf heard about Zika and the cases of microcephaly just a few weeks ago, she was determined to do something to help the women in Brazil and other...
A small peptide dubbed TAxI is living up to its name. Recent studies show it to be an effective vehicle for shuttling functional proteins, such as active enzymes, into the spinal cord after a muscle...
Hospitals and emergency rooms around the country are packed with sleek, cutting-edge technologies. But it’s a distinctly different picture over at your primary-care clinic. Besides that computer in...
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For the first time, abnormal brain development following a Zika infection during pregnancy has been documented experimentally in the offspring...
Researchers have shown for the first time, in pregnant nonhuman primates, that Group B streptococcus bacteria employ a toxin to escape first-line immune defenses in the placenta and rapidly infect...