05/18/2017
Research has identified a new way that viruses keep infected cells alive – so the viruses can use the cells to reproduce. The finding suggests it may be possible to target this process to treat viral...
06/19/2017
For once, she said, her dad didn’t have to check on her during the night.
Peyton Miller was reflecting on the biggest change posed by the new insulin pump that she’s worn for a month.
“He used to...
Inspired by one of the simplest, most-used household items ever, a UW cardiologist has created a lifesaver. In the next year, Dr. David Linker expects his invention, which detects dangerous abnormal...
Primatologists like Lisa Jones-Engel at the UW National Primate Research Center can only speculate about why HIV became a human-to-human virus, but they want to prevent another such devastating...
Clot device-Nathan White
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Dr. Nathan White is an emergency-medicine specialist at Harborview.
Nathan White
A small, plastic-and-silicon card to...
Brian Wansink has spent much of his life thinking about food and wondering about Americans’ relationship to it.
“I grew up in Sioux City, Iowa. Like a lot of people in the Midwest, I spent a lot of...
When Heather Evans, a trauma surgeon at Harborview Medical Center, stepped into the operating room wearing an eyeglasses-like, Internet-connected device known as Google Glass, she quickly realized...
Katie McCabe, a grad student in UW’s School of Public Health, highlights the rationale for immunizing infants and children early in life.
This is the year you’ve vowed to finally shed that extra weight. But you might be making poor choices without even knowing it. UW Medicine clinical dietitian Judy Simon discusses food choices that...
A new drug, pritelivir, may offer a new treatment option for patients with genital herpes, a study led by University of Washington researchers has found. The study appears in this week’s New England...