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July 23, 2009

National leader in healthy aging comes to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø

By Judith Yarrow
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Promotion Research Center


What brings a national leader in healthy aging across the country to share an office at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø for the summer?



“I came here because the Seattle area has a unique configuration of academic, community and health care professionals working collaboratively to figure out how to improve population health among older people,” said Nancy Whitelaw, senior vice-president of the National Council on Aging (NCOA) and director of its Center for Healthy Aging.

July 22, 2009

ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers find heroin, cocaine top drug treatment admissions in King County; prescription-type opiates cause most deaths

A community workgroup led by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø research scientist Caleb Banta-Green of the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Institute unveiled today the King County 2008 annual drug trends report.