Patients navigated difficult times by writing and storytelling, guided by author Wendy Call.
Author: Marsha Rule
A group of researchers led by Dr.
The UW Initiative for Maximizing Student Diversity (IMSD) program has received a four-year, $2.
Each year six students, one each from the UW health sciences schools, are selected for this award
The Targeted Rural-Underserved Track selects and trains UW medical students for high-need specialties and prepares them to
The public is invited to a UW panel discussion April 6 on the how genome sciences advances might affect the cost and quality of health care
Chris Martin, the new executive director of Airlift Northwest, didn’t hit the ground running when she came on board in March.
David Cutler, the Otto Eckstein Professor of Applied Economics at Harvard University Department of Economics, will give the 19th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Friday, Nov.
“The mold in my house is making my child sicker, but my landlord would kick me out if I said anything about it.
Two faculty members at the University of Washington have received the 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
“The name Karen Ann Jenkins was recently added to the former masculine ranks of Environmental Health Specialists.
Jennifer Culkin is a critical care nurse at Harborview Medical Center and an award-winning author.
Women have been at the forefront of healing practices since the beginning of time, but it has only been in the past 150 years that they have been included in the formal study and practice of medicine.
Stephanie Steppe, director of Health Sciences Academic Services & Facilities, doesn’t think she has taken more than a week’s vacation at a time in 40 years.
The UW Department of Global Health is stretching the boundaries of academia and redefining what “interdisciplinary collaboration” means.
The Department of Global Health is building an infrastructure and a foundation for a complementary and interdisciplinary enterprise that will reach far.
With health care becoming ever more complex, interest in bioethics is at an all-time high, and the UW is rapidly becoming the bioethics center for the Northwest — thanks in large part to the interdisciplinary collaboration of ethicists throughout the university.
When Lu Hilton was a student in the UW School of Nursing in the ’50s, learning patient care was pretty low tech.
As major employers and payers of health care benefits, businesses have a vested interest in reducing health care costs and improving the health status of their employees.
The Washington Attorney General’s Office has honored Lori Oliver and Bill Nicholson, UW assistant attorneys general, with its highest performance recognition — the 2007 Excellence Award.
Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive and fatal brain disorder, is a thief that slowly robs the afflicted of their cognitive abilities and burdens their caregivers with overwhelming responsibilities.
Too much stress and anxiety in your life?
Dr.
Jack Berryman, UW professor of medical history and adjunct professor of orthopaedics and sports medicine, is an avid sportsman, historian and scholar.
Michelle Williams, UW professor of epidemiology, has won the American Public Health Association’s (APHA) Abraham Lilienfeld Award that recognizes excellence in teaching of epidemiology during the course of her career.
James Angelosante has been named director of finance and administration for Health Sciences Administration (HSA).
Faye Wattleton, president for the Center for the Advancement of Women and former president of Planned Parenthood Federation of America, will give the 18th Hogness Symposium on Health Care lecture Wednesday, Oct.
It’s well documented that smoking tobacco is one of the riskiest and deadliest behaviors around, contributing to over 30 percent of heart disease and strokes, nearly 90 percent of lung cancers and at least a third of other cancers.
If you’re a member of the UW community and are looking for comprehensive and easily accessible dental care, check out the UW Dentists Faculty Practice clinic.
When there are conflicting opinions in patient care, who decides what’s in the best interest of the patient?
Health care professionals from the United States and abroad will grapple with this question and others at the UW’s 20th Annual Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics, Aug.
Two UW employees, Lois Fink and Miko Robertson, are among more than 1.
Johnese Spisso has been a guiding force in the operations of Harborview Medical Center for the past seven years.
On Monday, May 7, Dr.
The UW Department of Medical History and Ethics has come a long way since its beginnings as a single course, the “Introduction to Medicine,” in the 1950s.