News Archive
Mpox Vaccine Highly Protective Among People with HIV
In a study was led by researchers at Center for AIDS Research (CFAR), a joint program of the...
EPA Announces Funding for Clean Water in Washington Schools and Homes
Alongside the Lead and Copper Rule Improvements, EPA is announcing $57,015,000 in newly available drinking water infrastructure funding...
WSU Alumni Return as Faculty
As the first class of Washington State University MD graduates are completing their residency programs and becoming independently...
Mission Forward Changed and the Philosophy of Ambulatory Care
Mission Forward at the University of Washington is working to standardize care at the UW’s 125 ambulatory care...
Salaries of New Emergency Medicine Graduates
Dr. Fiona Gallahue, UW Department of Emergency Medicine, is the lead author of a newly published study entitled...
Outdoor and Agricultural Burning
The Northwest Clean Air Agency (NWCAA), under the Washington Clean Air Act and the state outdoor burning and...
Fred Hutch Expands Research Capacity
Fred Hutch Cancer Center is adding three buildings that will allow more square footage to be dedicated to...
Youth-REACH for the WWAMI Region
Youth-REACH (Youth Rural Education and Careers in Healthcare) is a new program to empower rural youth linving in...
Children Are the Most at Risk for Lead Poisoning
Lead is a naturally occurring element found in small amounts in the earth’s crust. While it has some...
Vital: A Free Mobile App Designed to Support Cancer Survivors
Washington State is offering a new program to support those who are affected by cancer. The program is...
Washington School Nurse Expresses Concern for School Nurse Staffing
Liz Pray, school nurse in Moses Lake, Washington, writes about the importance of school nursing and the critical...
Virginia Mason Medical Center Downtown Seattle’s Birthing Center Closing
The Seattle Times reports that “Virginia Mason Medical Center’s birth center is the health system’s only birth center...
Overlake Medical Center & Clinics and MultiCare Health System Finalize Affiliation
Overlake Medical Center & Clinics and MultiCare Health System officially joined forces with the finalization of their affiliation...
Earlier Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease
Valerie Daggett, a UW scientist on a quest to understand protein dynamics, has developed a novel approach for...
Seattle Anesthesiologist Inaugurated as 2024-2025 President of WSMA
Dr. John Bramhall will lead the nearly 13,000 physician, physician assistant, and medical student members of the Washington...
CDC Reports Human Case of Bird Flu Not Linked to Animals
Medical News in Brief from the JAMA Network: The CDC reaffirmed that the risk of bird flu spreading...
WSU College of Veterinary Medicine celebrates 125th anniversary
In celebration of the Washington State University College of Veterinary Medicine’s 125th anniversary, the entire community is invited to...
Remembering Dr. Tim Evans: MEDEX Colleague and Friend
MEDEX Northwest bids farewell to Dr. Tim Evans, longtime medical director and faculty of the program. Before retiring...
New life-saving resource available in the Pacific NW through the UW Medicine ECMO program
The newly launched UW Medicine ECMO Transport Team can travel to hospitals across Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Idaho, Montana,...
Care-a-Van Mobile Health Services
The Washington Department of Health Care-a-Van is a mobile health clinic that serves people across Washington state. Where...
Kitsap Public Health District Vaccination Clinics
Kitsap Public Health District protects and promotes the health of all people in Kitsap County by providing up-to-date...
COVID-19 lockdowns prematurely aged teenage brains, UW study shows
New research from the University of Washington, published Sept. 9 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
Stay out of the water at these Seattle beaches
Swimmers should stay out of the water at six Seattle-area swimming beaches this weekend due to high bacteria...
Magnesium supplements for sleep
Magnesium mystery: “I don’t know how this completely works, but they respond to magnesium,” says UW Pediatrics’ Dr....
School-Based Clinics in Washington – 2023 Highlights
School-based clinics in Washington State are beneficial to families and students in many ways. Students have access to...
Maternity Care Deserts
By Lucy Li, University of Washington Information School Capstone Student In a report to Congressional Committees addressing maternity...
New AAP Guideline on Childhood Obesity Raises Concerns
By Lucy Li, University of Washington Information School Capstone Student The recent Clinical Practice Guideline for the...
Evidence-Based Diagnoses of Long Covid
By Lucy Li, University of Washington Information School Capstone Student The largest workers’ compensation insurer in New...
International Overdose Awareness Day + Recovery Month
August 31 is a day to remember those who have died from overdose and to acknowledge the grief...
Advancing Telehealth Beyond COVID-19
The AAMC (Association of American Medical Colleges) issued the following statement regarding U.S. House of Representatives passage of...
New HEALWA Document Delivery Service
HEALWA announces a new service — a Pilot Project for Document Delivery. Can’t find what you need? If...
Health Care Cost Transparency Board seeks members for Advisory Committee on Data Issues
Do you have health care-related data and analysis or actuarial analysis expertise? Consider applying to become a member...
Nutrition for Precision Health
The All of Us Research Program from the National Library of Medicine of the National Institutes of Health...
COVID-19 Testing Locations
Find a COVID-19 testing location near you. To make it easier to find a testing site, the Department...
All for One … Health for All: The Role of Open Access, Evidence-Based Information to Improve Health for All Species
The following post appeared in the blog of the Director of the National Library of Medicine, Patricia Flatley...
Updated: More HEALWA CNE Nursing Tutorial Webinars in 2020
HEALWA webinars carrying CNE credit are available to you on a regular basis. Improve your research skills by...
Responding to the Call: George Floyd, Black Lives Matter and Systemic Change
“Speaking on behalf of UW Libraries to all individuals and communities of color— including our UW employees, users...
Johns Hopkins COVID-19 Tracking Map (Including Recovered Cases)
The Center for Systems Science and Engineering at Johns Hopkins University is tracking the COVID-19 spread in real...
JAMA Health Forum
JAMA Health Forum is a new channel for health policy content. See the introductory issue. The intended audience...
JAMA Open Day: Supporting Open Access (Remote attendance available)
On Wednesday, January 22, from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM, the University of Washington Health Sciences Library will...
Is CBD Safe During Pregnancy?
New update from Natural Medicines (accessible to HEALWA users): “The FDA is warning consumers about using CBD during...
Sickle Cell Disease Training and Mentoring Program (STAMP)
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health (OMH) has announced a new pilot...
Community Programs for Substance Use Disorder Education
In response to the growing opioid crisis, naloxone nasal spray for the emergency treatment of overdose is made...
Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons
The National Library of Medicine’s travelling exhibit, Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Surgeons, is currently on display at...
Engaging Users to Support the Modernization of ClinicalTrials.gov
This is a reprint from “Musing from the Mezzanine”, the blog of National Library of Medicine Director Patricia...
VisualDx Now Available
VisualDX, a visual clinical support system, is available through HEALWA on a trial to MDs, Physician Assistants, DOs,...
Attention RNs and Nurse Practitioners!
UPDATE: The next two webinars (1 CNE) are March 21 at 10 am (Thursday); April 4 at 7 pm (Thursday)...
Bed Rest During Pregnancy: What does the Evidence Say?
Although thousands of women are still prescribed bed rest during pregnancy each year, there is little evidence that...
October is Medical Librarians Month
Patti Brennan, Director of the National Library of Medicine, thanks medical librarians in a recent blog post: “Get...
New Community Outreach Coordinator
HEALWA welcomes Patricia Devine, MLS, as the new Community Outreach Coordinator, effective October 1. She will be managing...
Spring into action! Don’t miss the HEALWA CNE webinars!
If you haven’t had a chance to attend one of the FREE online workshops about how to sign...
HEALWA Annual Report is Now Available
As 2017 comes to a close, we are pleased to announce that the 2016-2017 HEALWA Annual Report has...
Sign up now for the December 5th webinar on HEALWA!
Using HEALWA: A Health Information Resource for Washington 1 contact hour CNE When: Tuesday, December 5th from 5-6...
There’s still space in the November 7th HEALWA webinar!
Using HEALWA: A Health Information Resource for Washington 1 contact hour CNE When: Tuesday November 7, 2017 from...
Sign up now for the October 3rd webinar on HEALWA!
Using HEALWA: A Health Information Resource for Washington 1 contact hour CNE When: Tuesday October 3 from 5-6...
Need help finding health information? Looking for free CNE contact hours?
There is an upcoming online workshop about using HEALWA that offers 1 contact hour CNE to participants at...
August 1st CNE Credit Opportunity
Don’t miss the next chance to earn 1 contact hour for attending our new webinar! Using HEALWA: A...
Stop by the HEALWA booth at the WANA Conference!
Are you attending the WANA Spring Anesthesia Conference this weekend in Seattle? If so, please stop by the...
Upcoming CNE Credit Opportunity on April 4th
Don’t miss your chance to earn 1 contact hour for attending our new webinar: Using HEALWA: A Health...
Potential Outage of HEALWA Website on 3/18 and 3/25
The University of Washington Health Sciences Library has been notified that a power outage is scheduled on two...
HEALWA Has a New Assistant Director
Welcome to Christina Pryor, MLS the Assistant Director & Community Health Education Coordinator. She will coordinate the Health...
2015-2016 HEALWA Annual Report Now Available Online
The 2015-2016 HEALWA Annual Report is now available on the HEALWA portal site, linked here: http://healwa.org/about/healwa-annual-reports. You can...
Webinar: Overview of Access Medicine Resources – Wednesday, May 4th at Noon
AccessMedicine is an innovative online reference and practice resource providing access to more than 85 medical title, thousands...
VisualDx – New Look and Expanded Features
As of today, VisualDx has changed their look and expanded the features available in their decision support database,...
HEALWA Welcomes Marriage & Family Therapy Associates and Clinical Social Work Associates
As of January 1, 2016 Marriage & Family Therapy Associates and Clinical Social Work Associates can now access...
2014-2015 HEALWA Annual Report Now Available Online
The 2014-2015 HEALWA Annual Report is now available on the HEALWA portal site, linked here: http://healwa.org/about/healwa-annual-reports. You can...
Free Trial Open For McGraw-Hill’s Clinical Access Database
HEALWA has arranged to have a period from now until the end of November for users to try...
New To HEALWA This Year: Joanna Briggs Institute Library
We are pleased to announce that we have added a new resource to HEALWA this year: The Joanna...
Announcing the Amazon Gift Card Winners – Congratulations!
Several weeks ago, we closed the HEALWA Evaluation Study that went out to thousands of health care practitioners...
Online Training for Healthcare Providers on Medicinal Cannabis
Medicinal Cannabis and Chronic Pain is a new interactive, online course from the University of Washington’s Alcohol and...