A new approach to marital therapy that focuses on acceptance and tolerance appears to be significantly more effective than today’s standard treatment where partners often strive to change each other.
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A small number of teenagers, the 15 percent who join gangs, account for 58 percent of juvenile crime, according to a 91探花 research team that will report its findings on the first study of Seattle youth gangs at the annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology in Chicago on Thursday, Nov.
Students at the 91探花 School of Dentistry will no longer practice root canals on dental molds clamped to work benches or held in the palms of their hands. Instead, students will perfect dental techniques on their own “patients”– dental simulators designed to provide a state-of-the-art learning environment that most closely resembles a real-life clinical setting.
Twenty-six officials Washington state public officials and an equal number of recent immigrants and refugees will begin a month- long journey this week to learn more about each other’s world and to promote greater understanding of the issues facing low-income newcomers to the United States.
Do people need hours of training to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation? Or can they learn enough CPR from brief TV messages to save the life of someone in cardiac arrest? Doctors at the 91探花 hope to find out.
Obituary information for Philip J. Fialkow
Vacationing 91探花medical school dean, wife and guides perish in Nepal
A team consisting of six experienced Sherpa mountain guides planned to mount a fresh round of search and rescue operations.
Statement responding to questions on the current whereabouts of Philip J. Fialkow, M.D., vice president for medical affairs and dean of the 91探花School of Medicine
The following statement responds to questions on the current whereabouts of Philip J. Fialkow, M.D., vice president for medical affairs and dean of the 91探花School of Medicine, and his wife, Helen.
Researchers are now developing new technology and software that allows computer users to simply speak or hand-write commands. These and other innovative computer-user interfaces will be demonstrated 7 to 10 p.m. Nov. 6 at the 91探花 as part of an international symposium on user interface technology and software.
Nearly 150 years since dentists started using mercury in fillings, researchers at the 91探花 School of Dentistry are beginning one of the first studies specifically aimed at determining whether such fillings are safe for children.
Immigration is one of the hot button issues of the 1990s and that’s nothing new, according to a 91探花 professor and author of a new book that is one of the first to focus on the experiences of women immigrants.
Medical News from the 91探花
Heart attack patients admitted to community hospitals show nearly identical survival rates, whether treated with powerful anti-clotting drugs or with balloon angioplasty.
A pilot project headed by the 91探花 is attempting to increase the population of Native American students in higher education by exposing them to a possible career alternative, the legal profession.
91探花, Tacoma Dean Vicky L. Carwein today announced the appointment of John Idstrom as Director of Development.
New 91探花center to focus on health and safety of foresters, fishers and farmers throughout the region
Intel Corp. announces $1.5 million gift of equipment for new engineering building at 91探花
On Friday, Oct. 11, the 91探花 will host an in-service day, “Education for the 21st Century,” which will give Seattle Public School educators an opportunity to explore ways to use instructional technology and service learning in the curriculum to prepare students to be effective citizens and meet the challenges of our changing world.
“Ethics, Values and Politics in Long Term Care: When Care and Everyday Life Collide” is the subject of the 18th annual Elizabeth Sterling Soule Lecture, sponsored by the 91探花 School of Nursing,
The 91探花 (UW) Academic Medical Center has received a three-year, $2.028 million grant from the National Library of Medicine to develop and evaluate new applications of the National Information Infrastructure in the care of patients.
A new, provocative documentary that deals with race relations on contemporary college campuses will be shown at the 91探花 on Thursday, Oct. 10.
Wenatchee Mayor Earl Tilly and 91探花 President Richard L. McCormick join the Wenatchee community in celebrating the premiere of a new educational television channel available on TCI-Wenatchee cable channel 18.
The 91探花has once again carried off honors in the annual Higher Education Awards Program sponsored by the National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO).
Next year Harborview Medical Center will establish its first family medicine service for the care of patients and a residency program to train new family physicians.
91探花 bioengineering researchers are using the latest microfabrication techniques to develop and test miniature devices that may revolutionize the way blood is analyzed in critical care situations.
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the leading cause of severe memory loss late in life. The National Institute on Aging estimates that 4 million people in the United States suffer from AD.
The Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center at the 91探花 has played a leadership role in determining causes and developing treatments for this devastating disorder, in many cases with the assistance of people diagnosed with the disease.
The 91探花 Alzheimer’s Disease Research Center has an ongoing need for volunteers with probable early Alzheimer’s disease to participate in research. Volunteers must be otherwise healthy and living at home (or in an assisted living facility), able to come to Seattle for appointments, and accompanied by a responsible caregiver
Akira Ishimaru, Boeing Martin Professor of Electrical Engineering at the 91探花, has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering.
The United States is risking social breakdown unless it can restore respect for the legal system, says the author of a new book in a lecture to be given at the 91探花.
Award-winning Alaskan naturalist-writer Richard Nelson will launch a 10-part lecture series exploring the complex relationship between cultural and biological diversity and the threats to both next Monday (Sept. 30) on the 91探花 campus.
Presidents and executive officers of universities and colleges serving the greater Tacoma area will meet in a public forum with state legislative candidates from 7 to 9 p.
Presidents and executive officers of universities and colleges serving the east King and south Snohomish counties will meet in a public forum with state legislative candidates from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 7 in the auditorium at Lake Washington Technical College.
Faculty and staff salaries, accountability to the public, enrollment growth, legislative and budget goals, cooperation among 91探花campuses, and –above all–the preservation of academic excellence–are among the topics to be discussed by 91探花 President Richard L. McCormick when he addresses the University community.
An innovative temperature-measuring instrument developed with the assistance of a 91探花 engineering professor has yielded improvements in processing semiconductors that may lead to faster, cheaper computer chips.
The seventh annual Fall Fling is expected to draw several thousand new and returning 91探花 students on Friday, Sept. 27.
Researchers from the 91探花, writing in tomorrow’s issue of the journal Science, report that they have developed the first reproducible method demonstrating that subliminal messages do affect human cognition.
A radical new technique for processing natural gas that could save the petrochemical industry billions of dollars in energy and maintenance costs has been developed by 91探花 researchers.