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...
11/28/2017
Surgeons at UW Medicine in Seattle have performed the first liver transplant in the Pacific Northwest involving a warm blood-perfusion device to transport the organ between donor and recipient.
Paul...
12/08/2017
"The app is able to be a lot more accurate and detect more subtle changes than the human eye can, even that of a practiced clinician," said Dr. Lynn McGrath, a UW Medicine neurological surgery...
01/18/2018
An advance directive, or living will, is routinely recommended for patients facing serious illness. Most health directives, however, fail to cover the common scenario of Alzheimer’s disease.
In the...
02/14/2018
Casey Schorr didn't always have epilepsy. His seizures started when he was 12.
"It kept getting worse and worse, even on the medications, which is why they started doubling them and tripling them,"...
04/21/2018
Though overall patient numbers are still relatively low, syphilis is rising steeply nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You may be surprised to learn that hearing...
04/24/2018
Baseball player Danny Farquhar is recovering after surgery for a ruptured brain aneurysm, which he sustained during a game April 20. An aneurysm is a weak, bubble-like area on a blood vessel.
"The...
06/05/2018
Men's Health offers three scenarios for how many times you should be tested for a sexually transmitted infection (STI). Dr. Johnston weighs on two of them.
Scenario 1: Once a year. (If sexually...
07/26/2018
Rates of gonorrhea in the United States have been rising, partly due to changes in testing methods that are picking up more cases and also due to an increasing number of infections seen in men having...
08/06/2018
Every time a commercial pilot encounters a complication, the airline does a root-cause analysis and shares the findings immediately. The investigation focuses not on blame, but on the problem and the...