05/24/2017
UW Medicine’s Regional Heart Center is enrolling patients in a clinical trial that may be the final threshold to a new standard of care for aortic-valve replacement.
It is the only trial site in...
06/23/2017
Research results reported this week in the journal Science overturn long-held views on a basic messaging system within living cells.
The findings suggest new approaches to designing precisely...
05/24/2017
When West Seattle resident Joel Eggert, 46, died last December in a motorcycle accident, his decision to be an organ donor became a life-saving gift.
Months later, Jennie Lawrence of Anchorage,...
06/15/2017
Sue McNeely of Bothell, Washington, hasn't driven since February 10, when she had a stroke in rush-hour traffic on Interstate 405.
A state trooper responded and recognized the emergency. McNeely was...
06/16/2017
Physicians ordered or provided 2.8 billion drugs for their patients in 2013, and those numbers have risen steadily, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). More people than...
In a dimly lit basement room, Kate Sweeney is working cheek by jowl with renowned orthopedic surgeon Sigvard Hansen. They’re placing a screw in a patient’s ankle.
“These are drill holes with bone...
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...
Hernia: It’s something that happens to millions of Americans. A hernia is a condition in which an organ or internal tissue bulges through a weak spot in the muscle or connective tissue that surrounds...
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...
Instead of coasting toward graduation last spring, Kaitlin Poppe had a better plan: serving at-risk patients.
Poppe, who received her D.D.S. from UW in June, spent the spring at the Yakima Valley...