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February 25, 2003

Doctors should consider providing more information to patients about medical errors

errors. Researchers who conducted a series of focus groups with doctors and patients say that patients want to be fully informed when an error happens, and believe such disclosure would increase their trust in their doctor. Yet while doctors want to be truthful, a variety of barriers may prevent physicians from disclosing errors to patients.

February 19, 2003

Landscape students from 2 nations to design for International District

Eleven landscape architecture students from Japan’s Chiba University will join their University of Washington counterparts to develop urban-design proposals for key sites in the Chinatown-Nihonmachi-Little Saigon-International District, where community groups seek to preserve the area’s heritage amid development pressure.

February 17, 2003

Brief exposure to Mandarin can help American infants learn Chinese

Researchers have found a way to reverse what appears to be a universal decline in foreign language speech perception that begins toward the end of the first year of life. University of Washington neuroscientist Patricia Kuhl reported today that 9-month-old American infants who were exposed to Mandarin Chinese for less than five hours in a laboratory setting were able to distinguish phonetic elements of that language.

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