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GI Cancer Rates Don鈥檛 Easily Represent Diverse Groups

Among the subpopulations, researchers also found marked differences in health outcomes, socioeconomic status, education, and immigration status that can be easily obscured when these groups are characterized as a single population, the authors...
2-May-2025 9:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Social Support Weighted in Endometrial Cancer Outcomes

Newly funded research by the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) will study 250 women over five years to find out how they fare after their diagnosis and the extent social support, or lack thereof, plays a part in their recovery...
2-May-2025 9:00 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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New Guidelines Aim to Improve Cystic Fibrosis Screening

All states should adopt updated screening protocols so more newborns with cystic fibrosis can be diagnosed in the first weeks of life, when interventions can have the greatest benefit, according to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation guidelines published...
3-Apr-2025 6:05 PM EDT Add to Favorites

Children Exposed to Higher Ozone Levels Early in Life Are More Likely to Develop Asthma

Children exposed to higher levels of ozone in their first two years of life were significantly more likely to be diagnosed with asthma or wheezing at ages 4-6 鈥 but researchers didn鈥檛 observe the increased risk of asthma at ages 8-9.
2-Apr-2025 9:20 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Prostate Cancer Is Not a Death Knell, Study Shows

鈥淏eing diagnosed with prostate cancer is not a death knell,鈥 said Montgomery, senior author of a literature and trial review that appeared in JAMA today. Montgomery is the clinical director of Genitourinary Oncology at Fred Hutch Cancer Center...
10-Mar-2025 7:50 PM EDT Add to Favorites

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Effort Seeks to Increase Cancer-Gene Testing in Primary Care

In the JAMA Network Open study published today, Dr. Elizabeth Swisher and colleagues assessed two ways that primary-care practices could assess patients鈥 hereditary cancer risks and deliver testing to those identified as higher risk.
7-Mar-2025 7:40 PM EST Add to Favorites

Video: The UW鈥檚 assistive-feeding robot gets tested outside the lab

UW researchers deployed a robotic feeding arm in a pair of studies outside the lab. In the first, six users with motor impairments used the robot to feed themselves a meal in a UW cafeteria, an office or a conference room. In the second study, a...
4-Mar-2025 6:25 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Child ADHD Risk Linked to Mother鈥檚 Use of Acetaminophen

Acetaminophen metabolites were detected in 20.2% of maternal plasma samples. Children whose mothers had these biomarkers present in their plasma had a 3.15 times higher likelihood of an ADHD diagnosis compared with those without detected exposure.
20-Feb-2025 7:55 PM EST Add to Favorites


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How a UW Teaching Professor Adds the Context Behind the Science in Her Chemical Engineering Courses

Alex Prybutok, University of Washington assistant teaching professor of chemical engineering, studies anti-racism, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in engineering education.
7-Jan-2025 7:50 PM EST

Q&A: Promises and Perils of AI in Medicine, According to Uw Experts in Public Health and AI

In a recent paper, UW research professor describes a troubling experience asking an AI chatbot for medical information. Optimists believe artificial intelligence could help solve those problems, but the bots might not be ready for prime time.
21-Nov-2024 11:45 AM EST

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Q&A: UW Professor Discusses How Academia Can Help Battery Manufacturing in the US

Jie Xiao, University of Washington professor of mechanical engineering, talks about batteries and how academia can help support the growing domestic battery manufacturing industry.
18-Nov-2024 4:50 PM EST

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