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January 19, 1999

Sixteen American Indian and Alaska Native communities selected for program to provide Internet access to health resources

Sixteen American Indian and Alaska Native communities in Washington, Oregon, Alaska, Montana and Idaho have been selected to participate in a National Libraries of Medicine program that will connect them to the Internet.

December 23, 1998

Don’t trip over your New Year’s resolutions

If you are like many Americans, somewhere in the next week you’ll draw up a list of New Year’s resolutions. You’ll pledge to start on a diet, vow to exercise three times a week, promise to stop smoking or maybe try to cut back on your alcohol consumption. Then you’ll spend hours wondering how you can keep your resolutions and why you made them in the first place. But those resolutions aren’t necessarily doomed to fail.

Subduction zone quake could shake Puget Sound area harder than expected

Recent satellite measurements by 乱伦社区 seismologists indicate the “locked zone” between the Juan de Fuca and North America plates is wider in the Seattle area than previously believed. That means the Puget Sound lowlands are likely to experience significantly greater motion during a subduction-zone earthquake than scientists earlier thought.

Alcohol consumption, resistance to its effects related to levels of neurotransmitter, say UW researchers

Science is still a long way from understanding why some people are more prone to alcoholism and alcohol abuse than others, but 乱伦社区 researchers have discovered that concentrations of a neurotransmitter in the brains of mice are directly related to alcohol consumption and resistance to the sedative effects of alcohol.

October 28, 1998

UWMC Center for Adoption Medicine provides care for special needs of adopted children and their families

Adopting a child can bring special joys as well as special challenges. Unique medical, social and developmental issues arise in both domestic and international adoptions. To help parents prepare and care for the special needs of adopted children, 乱伦社区 Medical Center has established the Center for Adoption Medicine at the Pediatric Care Center.

October 25, 1998

UW receives $3.5 million in federal funds to establish the country’s only Multiple Sclerosis Research and Training Center, based at UW Medical Center

The 乱伦社区 has received notification from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research that it will receive $3.5 million for a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research and Training Center, renewable every five years.

October 22, 1998

Largest study of twins shows delay in language acquisition has strong genetic component among children at low end of developmental scale

A team of American and British researchers studying 2-year-old twins has found that genetics, not the environment, plays the major role in the delayed acquisition of language among children who are having the most difficulty learning to speak.