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Thursday, September 29, 2022

Specificity helps when describing heart symptoms

The American Heart Association relates how detailed information helps patients and healthcare providers pinpoint the root of a problem.

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September 28, 2022

Study: ‘Bionic pancreas’ improves type 1 diabetes control

Users of the investigational device spent 11% more time in the target blood-glucose range than control-group members.

a donor heart beats in the Organ Care System before it is transplanted

September 23, 2022

Patient receives region’s 1st DCD heart transplant

UW Medicine and LifeCenter Northwest partnered on a momentous donation-after-circulatory-death procedure for an Oregon man.

illustration of baby within uterus, placenta

September 19, 2022

COVID-19 zaps placenta’s immune response, study finds

This damage occurs even if the mother has a mild case of COVID-19, OB-GYN researchers found.

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What dogs & their owners are teaching scientists about cognitive & physical changes during the canine lifespan @DogAgingProject @mkaeberlein. Article @ljevanso in @KnowableMag reprinted @TheAtlantic https://t.co/H5PPMV9cGA

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#DocsWithDisabilities advisory board member @jbullockruns @UWNephrology tells @TIME reporter @abbyadams that he would like to see hospitals & med schools standardize how they handle accommodations for physicians with disabilities https://t.co/Yz4qkQgv1j

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RT @UWHusky_IDDRC: Greetings! Follow us @UWHusky_IDDRC for the latest findings and news from the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilitie…

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How heat hurts: @ConversationUS looks back over its past few years of heat wave explainers to relay 5 reasons why excessive heat is so dangerous. In 2020, Dr. William Calvin, emeritus @UWPsychiatry, wrote about the physiology of heat-related dehydration https://t.co/jP4KRIGc9H

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RT @SeattleMet: BA.5 and its omicron siblings have “greatly diverged from the ancestral SARS-CoV-2 strain” according to @UWMedicine. Its mu…

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RT @NIHAging: Understanding the cause of #Alzheimers disease is a big step toward treatments & prevention. The @AllenInstitute, @UWMedicine…

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"Knowing that we’re going to have 90-degree temperatures in Seattle for years to come ... you have to just think a lot differently about what you can and can’t do,” said Susie Rantz, a #longCOVID patient of @JannaFriedlyMD. https://t.co/tZGfG7rFZZ @UWRehabMed @UWMedicine

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Dr. Susan Ott @UWMedicine tells Herb Weisbaum @newsradionw that we all need to have some vitamin D, but not more than 800 units a day. @UWDeptMedicine @UWEndocrinology Listen to the story and study findings. https://t.co/1husA4bMpC

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Several ways consuming too much alcohol can interfere with efforts to maintain a healthy weight & with exercise routines @BusinessInsider. @UWMedicine nutritionist Judy Simon was interviewed by Willa Hart for this item https://t.co/64CedczysT

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"What we're trying to do with this study is to look at cell vulnerability early on in disease, before [people] have plaques and tangles, before they have cognitive impairment." – Dr. Dirk Keene @uwlabmedpath. https://t.co/9ruMj5fLjV @UWNeurosurgery @UWMedNSI @AllenInstitute

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Specificity helps when describing heart symptoms

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Study: ‘Bionic pancreas’ improves type 1 diabetes control

Patient receives region’s 1st DCD heart transplant

COVID-19 zaps placenta’s immune response, study finds

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