University of Washington joins new Autism Treatment Network to provide better medical services
Parents who have children with autism often have no place to turn to when it comes to finding quality treatment for this often still mysterious developmental disability which is accompanied by a wide variety of medical problems. That is why six leading medical institutions, including the Autism Center at the University of Washington, today are joining forces with physicians and parents to form t...National Chemistry Week celebrates health and wellness in Washington, D.C., area
Several hundred local elementary and middle school students in Washington, D.C., and Annandale, Va., will discover the contributions of chemistry to health and wellness Oct. 17-23 during the 16 annual National Chemistry Week celebration, a program sponsored by the American Chemical Society, the worlds largest scientific society. There also will be presentations for the public at the Martin Luthe...Highlights of Washington University Alzheimer's Research at National Conference
St. Louis, July 20, 2004 -- Stress appears to increase the severity of Alzheimer's disease.... ...That's just one of over 40 new findings from studies led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis that will be presented at the Alzheimer's Association's 9th International Conference on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders in Philadelphia from July 17-22. ... ..."S...Georgetown University receives $6.5 million grant to enhance emergency preparedness in Washington
Washington, D.C. A team from Georgetown University Medical Center and MedStar Health has been awarded a $6.5 million research grant by NIH's National Library of Medicine to create a unique emergency preparedness system rooted in advanced information technology.... ..."The anthrax attacks of 2001 revealed serious deficiencies in the way hospitals and public health organizations are equipped to as...The Gerontological Society of America confers 2003 Freeman Award to U. of Washington's Abrass
The University of Washington School of Medicine's Dr. Itamar Abrass has been chosen by The Gerontological Society of America to receive its 2003 Joseph T. Freeman Award. This honor, given annually, is a lectureship in geriatrics and is awarded to a prominent physician in the field of aging--both in research and practice--who is a member of the Society's Clinical Medicine section.... ...The award...OneWorld Health licenses compounds from Yale, U of Washington to treat major parasitic diseases
San Francisco, Calif. July 8, 2003 -- The Institute for OneWorld Health, the first nonprofit pharmaceutical company in the United States, announced today it has licensed a novel class of high-potency compounds from Yale University and the University of Washington that could result in medicines for the developing and developed worlds.... ...The agreement gives OneWorld Health the exclusive licen...U of Washington establishes $9 million center to study hepatitis-induced liver disease
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a $9 million grant to the University of Washington to support the newly formed Center for Functional Genomics and Hepatitis C Virus-Associated Liver Disease. This center is applying modern genomics, protein studies and computational technologies to study hepatitis C virus (HCV)-associated liver dis...Assoc. of American Medical Colleges honors University of Washington medical school
SAN FRANCISCO (Nov. 9) -- The University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine is the recipient of the Association of American Medical Colleges 2002 Award for Outstanding Community Service. The award, given annually to just one medical school in the country, was presented here tonight at the association's annual meeting. ...The award honors efforts to ameliorate health-care inequities in remote s...Bridge Medical shares expertise at Washington Patient Safety Conference
SOLANA BEACH, Calif.; MINNEAPOLIS, Minn.; and PETOSKEY, Mich.--(BW HealthWire)--Oct. 11, 2002--Patient safety award winner Gordon H. Sprenger, MHA--a member of the board of directors of Bridge Medical, a Southern California patient safety company--is one of several safety experts scheduled to advise Partnership Symposium 2002 attendees on how to devise their own "Smart Designs for Patient Safety....FINAL ALERT: RPB Science Writers Seminar in Eye Research to be held in Washington, DC Sept. 22-25
To: SCIENCE AND MEDICAL WRITERS, EDITORS AND BROADCASTERS ...RPB'S SIXTEENTH NATIONAL SCIENCE WRITERS SEMINAR IN EYE RESEARCH AND VISION ...THE ST. GREGORY HOTEL, WASHINGTON, DC ...SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 22 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2002... ......THE PROGRAM IS NOW SETand it's a beauty...a heady brew, a veritable Septemberfest, of scintillating science and first-rate storiescourtesy of the 30 and mor...University of Washington developing AI caretakers for Alzheimer's sufferers
Henry Kautz knows firsthand the ravages of Alzheimer's disease....... When his father developed the condition, he watched his mother assume the role of constant guardian and guide, helping her husband to continue to function in the daily tasks that most of us take for granted....... "As my father lost the ability to do things for himself, my mother would give him gentle prompts to keep him on t...Eastern Washington hospitals deploy new Bridge technology to enhance patient safety
Like many other hospitals, Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash., is committed to keeping patients safe from preventable medical errors. What sets the 623-bed Providence Services Eastern Washington (PSEW) hospital apart is its willingness to explore new patient safety technology and share lessons learned with other hospitals....... Since 1999, Sacred Heart has been testing a patient safet....New findings about a weight-loss nutritional supplement, threats to America's museum treasures and a high-performance gasoline additive that reduces pollution will be presented August 20-24 at the 220th national meeting of the American Chemical Society, the world's largest scientific society with 161,000 members. The meeting will be held in Washington, D.C., at the Washington Convention Center...Whether by productivity or by salary, the way in which primary care physicians...are compensated in medical groups does not appear to affect the cost or amount...of health services for patients. A study by researchers at the University of...Washington School of Public Health and Community Medicine and published in the...March 18 edition of the Journal of the American Medical Association, is one...