Dolan: Taxonomy of Headaches

Maria Dolan explains the four categories of headaches in the latest Northwest Health, Group Health’s quarterly magazine with tips on fitness, nutrition and preventive medicine. Get a scorecard on duration, symptoms and treatment, with advice on how to avoid...

Miner: Who’s Who in Vaccine Research

The monthly newsletter VIDD Vitals takes us inside Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center’s Vaccine and Infectious Disease Division with upcoming events and recent publications and awards. Mindy Miner profiles the institute’s biostaticians, scientists, and...

Pajer: Think Globally, Read Locally

In Bernadette Pajer’s historical mysteries, crimes are solved not by a detective, a little old lady, or a journalist-hacker pair. In A Spark of Death and Fatal Induction, the hero is Professor Benjamin Bradshaw from the University of Washington’s...

McElroy: Your Desk Is Not That Bad

Or rather, the clutter in your workspace could be worse. How? Molly McElroy, public information officer in the Office of News and Information at the University of Washington, explains in a story about the psychology of hoarding. If you are among the 2.5 to 5 percent...

Scigliano: Global Warming’s Evil Twin

We thought we’d heard the last of acid rain, but a story by Eric Scigliano at OnEarth.org is a reminder of that environmental plague of the 1970s. Fossil fuel consumption increases CO2 in the atmosphere, causing global climate change. But it also forces CO2 into our...