Health

Chatterjee, a renowned biostatistician is the 16th Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at Johns Hopkins University.

By age 5 children have a sense of self-esteem comparable in strength to that of adults, according to a new study by UW's I-LABS researchers.

"My research indicates that ... pledges of abstinence do not necessarily make for an easy transition to a married sexual life," writes Sarah Diefendorf, UW sociology doctoral student, in The Conversat

Joanne Silberner, UW artist-in-residence in communication, interviews Margaret Chan, who has led the World Health Organization for the last nine years.

A new study from UW I-LABS suggests how strongly children identify with math can be used to predict how high they will score on a standardized math tests.

UW I-LABS researchers have conducted what is believed to be the first experiment to show that two brains can be directly linked, allowing one participant to guess correctly what the other is thinking.

Researchers at the University of Washington’s Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I-LABS) are among the first scientists worldwide to study body maps in the infant brain.

New research has found that a third of Americans are informal caregivers, putting in 1.2 billion hours per week.

A UW study offers new insight on restorative vision and the human experience.

The University of Washington has shown for the first time what the world looks like for someone fitted with a bionic eye.

New visual simulations give us a glimpse of what it might look like to see the world through bionic eyes.

New findings by researchers at the UW's Institute for Learning Brain & Sciences demonstrate an early social behavior "gaze shifting" that is linked to infants’ ability to learn new language sounds.

Study findings highlight need for more cultural-sensitivity training of caregivers, UW author says.

UW researchers have developed a new, long-acting malaria drug that they believe may help fight one of the world's biggest killers.

An international team of scientists — led by researchers from the University of Washington and two other institutions — has announced that a new compound to fight malaria is ready for human trials.