09/05/2017
Across King County is a great disparity in the health quality of residents in different neighborhoods. Disparities in life expectancy are as high as 18 years for men and 14 years for women.
Those "...
10/24/2017
An estimated 3 million adult American handgun owners carry a firearm loaded and on their person on a daily basis; 9 million do so on a monthly basis, new research indicates.
The study results were...
12/22/2017
Researchers are working on the vexing problem of a virus that shape shifts from one year to the next. UW Medicine research at the Fuller Lab into a “universal” flu vaccine uses a cutting-edge...
01/18/2018
Greg Ledwon, a patient with acute myeloid leukemia says he is slaying cancer and is excited about the prospects of curing leukemia. He is a patient of Pamela Becker, a UW Medicine researcher and part...
02/15/2018
Dr. Tony Blau founded All4Cure, an online knowledge-sharing website for doctors, researchers and patients with multiple myeloma, a cancer of the plasma cells. Such an online network -- it's free, too...
02/28/2018
A pioneering genome scientist from the University of Washington School of Medicine believes all women older than 30 should consider an at-home cancer risk test, despite some national experts who say ...
02/28/2018
Exceptionally detailed maps of child growth and education across Africa suggest that no single country is set to end childhood malnutrition by 2030.
03/09/2018
Not one African country is on track to end hunger and malnutrition by 2030, according to new data released late last month from the UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. A few weeks earlier...
04/20/2018
Many children hospitalized in the U.S. for brain injuries don't receive all the rehabilitation services needed for them to potentially make a full recovery, a new study suggests.
Researchers...