PostScript

picture of Dmitry Levin with 3D-printed heart in the making

October 17, 2018

3D printing puts hearts in cardiologists' hands

Exact replicas of patients' organs lets doctors figure out their approach and what devices they'll need -- before showtime.

picture of abnormal cells in Pap smear slide

October 11, 2018

HPV vaccine OK’d to age 45. (Do risky behaviors end then?)

Food and Drug Administration expands protections in the United States against sexually transmitted viruses associated with warts, lesions and multiple cancers.

October 11, 2018

New chair of pediatrics named

Adolescent medicine specialist Leslie Walker-Harding will return to Seattle in new leadership roles at UW Medicine and Seattle Children's.

picture of patient data displayed on a laptop

October 10, 2018

Prediction medicine: Which patients will have complications?

UW-developed AI software helps docs anticipate problems in the operating room, study shows.

October 8, 2018

New approach explored to treat childhood leukemia

Stem cell biologists in cancer research are looking into genetically reprogramming B-lymphocytes.

picture of Vasily Yarnykh positioning an object to test an MRI scanner

October 3, 2018

How to measure brain damage? A yardstick, of sorts, for MRI

Physicist pursues measure of nerve-insulating myelin for multiple sclerosis, stroke, TBI and child neural development.

October 3, 2018

Tech crowd hears about precision medicine

It was a big day for UW Medicine, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and other local medical science leaders at GeekWire Summit 2018, a Seattle present-meets-future technology conference.