UW News


December 6, 2001

Autistic brain bigger, less responsive than normal

Preschool-age children with autism exhibit no difference in brain activity when they are shown photographs of faces displaying different emotions, and their brains are larger than normal, according to new research at the UW’s Autism Center.


November 15, 2001

Cut your chance of developing Type 2 diabetes by 50 percent!

That headline sounds like an ad from the back of a magazine, doesn’t it? Amazingly, a recently released study says it’s true.


November 1, 2001

Telling the difference: PVCs and heart attack symptoms

You finally get to sit down at the end of the day.


October 25, 2001

New techniques can keep arteries open longer

For years, it seemed like a rite of passage, like a first car or a first grandchild.


UW researchers examine data on uterine rupture

Women who’ve had a Caesarean and who later attempt to deliver by labor are more likely to suffer a uterine rupture than women who go on to have a repeat Caesarean delivery, according to a UW study published in the New England Journal of Medicine.