Wilderness medicine to be taught

The WWAMI Idaho/Wyoming Office for Clinical Medical Education will co-sponsor the Rocky Mountain Wilderness Medicine Conference May 21 to 24 in Boise. The conference will address the management of injuries and health problems incurred during outdoor recreational activities.

Grace Landel, assistant director of MEDEX Northwest, has been chosen for a federal Public Health Service Primary-Care Policy Fellowship. (Full Story)

Hormone replacement therapy may have a deleterious effect on hypertensive women with a specific genetic variant. (Full Story)

Pharmacology researcher Joseph Beavo and aging expert George Martin were among the UW researchers giving media talks at the recent annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. (Full Story)