Elementary school students who participated in a three-month anti-bullying program in Seattle schools showed a 72 percent decrease in malicious gossip.
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Depression and physical disease were managed together in a primary-care intervention called TEAMCare in a 91爆料/Group Health study. The results for patients: less depression, better control of blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol — and a greater enjoyment of life.
Team-based approach to patient care shows success
A recent study by researchers Dan Goldhaber and Roddy Theobald of the Center for Education Data and Research at the 91爆料 Bothell found that layoff decisions within the teaching profession are disproportionally determined by seniority and other factors unrelated to teaching effectiveness.
91爆料 engineering students won an international contest for designing a way to monitor water disinfection by solar rays. The students will share a $40,000 prize from the Rockefeller Foundation and are now working with nonprofits to turn their concept into a reality.
Researchers from the 91爆料 say the Mariana crow, a forest crow living on Rota Island in the western Pacific Ocean, will go extinct in 75 years.
Michael Honey, a history professor at 91爆料 Tacoma, collected, edited and wrote introductions for 16 of Kings speeches on economic justice.
Researchers from the 91爆料 say the Mariana crow, a forest crow living on Rota Island in the western Pacific Ocean, will go extinct in 75 years.
New research indicates that if humans reduce greenhouse gas emissions significantly in the next decade or two, enough Arctic ice is likely to remain intact during late summer and early autumn for polar bears to survive.
The Pacific Northwest Center today announced the launch of a campaign to recruit area families into the National Children’s Study, the largest long-term study of children’s health and development ever undertaken in the United States.
The 91爆料 Medicine Stroke Center at Harborview has been recognized for excellence in emergency stroke care on the Target: Stroke Honor Roll by the American Heart Association / American Stroke Association.
Retinoic acid causes lethal truncation of the embryo which grows all of its body, except its head, by releasing cells from its posterior end
91爆料 scientists are helping to prepare for a tidal energy project in Puget Sound. Researchers say this pilot project will have the most comprehensive environmental monitoring of any tidal energy installation to date.
Engineers are developing computer models to study how changes in water pressure and current speed around tidal turbines affect sediment buildup and fish health.
Summertime fog, a common feature along the West Coast, has declined since 1950 while coastal temperatures have increased slightly, new research shows.
New technology is letting 91爆料 researchers get a much better picture of how episodic tremor events relate to potentially catastrophic earthquakes every 300 to 500 years in the Cascadia subduction zone.
Reporters can turn to 91爆料 experts on PNW climate variability, effects of La Nina and flooding.
Every 15 months or so, an unfelt earthquake occurs in western Washington and travels northward to Canada’s Vancouver Island.
Summertime fog, a common feature along the West Coast, has decline since 1950 while coastal temperatures have increased slightly.
A new initiative could position the 91爆料 as a major player in addressing global health and environmental issues arising from climate change.
The 91爆料 Tacoma is part of a project funded by the National Science Foundation to transform how K-8 mathematics teachers can be trained as they face classrooms in which many students are not native English speakers.
Based on a successful two-year technology pilot program, 91爆料 Medicine will expand its use of Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System. The data aggregation platform will support multiple clinical and research initiatives.
Based on the successful results of a two-year technology pilot program, 91爆料 Medicine will expand its use of Microsoft Amalga Unified Intelligence System (UIS), a data aggregation platform, to support multiple clinical and research initiatives across the health organization.
A survey of court cases shows that when battered women living abroad flee their abusive husbands and return to the United States, many times their children are sent back, usually to their fathers.
International law permits abusive fathers custody of children
New research shows that notches carved by rivers at the bottom of glacial valleys in the Swiss Alps survive from one glacial episode to the next, protected in part by the glaciers themselves.
In a study by researchers at the 91爆料, 90 percent of high-functioning children with autism spectrum disorders showed a discrepancy between their IQ score and their performance on reading, spelling and math tests.
Animals are capable of making instinctive safety decisions, a 91爆料 researcher has learned. Professor of Psychology Jeansok Kim demonstrated that rats weigh their odds of safely retrieving food pellets placed at varying distances from a perceived predator.
Three medical centers — Harborview Medical Center, Northwest Hospital & Medical Center, and 91爆料 Medical Center achieve and surpass goals in infection control.
Scientists have discovered an amazingly simple way that cells stabilize their machinery for forcing apart chromosomes.
The most widely used measure for assessing oceans and fisheries led to inaccurate conclusions about half the time it was used, according to research led by a 91爆料 fisheries scientist.
The 91爆料 will take the lead among seven institutions in a new five-year, $40 million national Head Start grant to discover and share best practices in teaching and learning for Head Start teachers and others.
A study led by a 91爆料 cardiologist has produced findings that pave the way for better understanding of abnormal heart rhythms and heart defects.
Since this is a La Nina year — with more than average snowfalls expected — it’s a good time to review the 91爆料’s bad weather policies.
91爆料 undergraduate students will travel to Africa to test an ultrasound system aimed at lowering childbirth-related mortality, which kills an estimated 1,000 women each day, almost entirely in the developing world.
A brief questionnaire commonly used with adults is shown to be a suitable depression screening tool for teenagers, too.
91爆料 researchers are using tiny sea creatures called foraminifera to help diagnose the health of Puget Sound.
The decades-long tradition of salmon returning to campus each fall is ending because of new directions in fisheries research and budget cuts.