Can you cut health spending without undermining the quality? A look at the cost to Medicare for patients treated at the nation’s top-ranked hospitals finds the costs run just about in the middle. Care a UW was even a bit cheaper.
Overdiagnosis occurs when routine breast cancer screening discovers a cancer that would have never caused symptoms in a woman’s lifetime. When this is the case, a woman might undergo the ordeal of surgery, radiation treatments and chemotherapy for a tumor that she otherwise would have never known she had.
Seattle’s City Club begins a four-part series on the cost of health care April 17: Why is it so high? and what can be done about it?
Chronically homeless men and women with severe alcohol problems who were allowed stay in a housing project–even if they kept drinking–reduced their alcohol intake significantly over a two-year period.
Davis will oversee PATH’s annual budget of $305 million, a staff of nearly 1,200, and a portfolio of projects based in PATH offices in 22 countries. He succeeds Dr. Christopher J. Elias, who left PATH to become president of the Global Development Program at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
One in seven of U.S. surgeons reported drinking habits consistent with alcohol abuse or dependence, according to a new survey by UW researchers. Drinking problems were even higher among women surgeons of whom one in four, 25.6 percent, reported drinking habits consistent with abuse or dependence.
Changes in the brains of children at high-risk for developing autism who later go on to develop the condition can be detected as early as six months of age, long before any signs of autistic behavior appear.
Medicare’s new Hospital Compare website allows you to compare hospitals side-by-side on a variety of patient safety and patient satisfaction measures. But are the comparisons fair?
When military deployments call for their parents to serve abroad, adolescents have a tough time adjusting, and a new University of Washington study shows their moods often lead to risky behavior.
UW researchers Dr. Lupe Salazar and Dr. John Liao among the grant recipients.
Upon completion, phase III of the South Lake Union project will add up to three new buildings that will provide nearly 542,000 square feet of new office and laboratory space.
Despite improvements in diabetes care in the U.S., kidney disease due to the complications of diabetes continues to rise, a study by researchers at the University of Washington report.
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Interpreter services at hospitals and other medical settings are often inadequate, forcing family members, including children, to step in, or the task falls to medical staff members who may not speak the language well.
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Don’t bet on it.
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