[Editors’ note: This is the fourth in a series of seven articles about bioethics. Q&A’s include UW experts discussing the beginning of life, end of life/futility, clinical consultation, pain care...
Everyone in the world should have access to 44 surgical procedures. So says “Essential Surgery,” a reference book released today by the Disease Control Priorities Network (DCP3) in the University of...
A letter from eight academic faculty across the nation criticized the Missouri General Assembly for its efforts to create laws that would halt clinical training and research related to abortion and...
Statistics show that, with increasing age, some drivers fail to grasp when their faculties slip into a territory that makes driving more dangerous.
Doctoral student Laura Fraade-Blanar of the...
"Age is the greatest risk factor for nearly every major cause of mortality in developed nation's," UW Medicine researchers Matt Kaeberlein, Peter Rabinovitch, and George Martin, all from the UW...
The Zika virus definitely causes birth defects, according to a special report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published April 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The author...
Researchers studying the science of aging cringe at the terms 'anti-aging' and 'Fountain of Youth'. And when they are quoted in the media with tantalizing headlines like “Chasing immortality” and “...
10/06/2017
After Todd and Laura Crooks lost their oldest son Chad to suicide, the West Seattle couple created Chad's Legacy Project to bring resources together and spark change.
Chad's Legacy Project and UW ...
11/30/2017
This World’s AIDS Day marks great progress in King County and Washington state. The numbers of new HIV diagnoses in King County are at their lowest level since 1998 and at the lowest level in...
01/17/2018
The outreach was led by nurse Maria Paulsen, who manages Washington's "Stop the Bleed" program, and Dr. Eileen Bulger, chief of trauma at Harborview Medical Center. The was sponsored by the American...