UW study demonstrates therapy effective for rape survivors
The University of Washington, a member of WGHA, has released a study in the New England Journal of Medicine offering hope in reducing symptoms of mental disorders for rape survivors. Six months after short-term treatment therapy by para-professionals, just 9 percent of women in the therapy group in the Democratic Republic of Congomet criteria for probable depression or anxiety.
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Life, Not Death, is Focus of New Health Metrics
Discover Magazine covered the Global Burden of Disease 2010 study and Institute for Health Metrics & Evaluation Director Dr. Christopher Murray and quoted WGHA's Executive Director Lisa Cohen.
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