08/07/2017
Usually, clear blue skies mark the end of summer in the Northwest. But not this year. Smoke from fires in British Columbia, combined with record breaking temperatures saw an uptick in patients...
09/29/2017
Do you really need to drink two-and-half gallons a day, like the New England Patriots' quarterback says he does on football Sundays? GQ asked experts, including Dr. Jonathan Harper of UW Medicine.
03/15/2018
UW Medicine urologist Thomas Walsh led a study that examines private insurance data along with which months vasectomies were done in from 2007 to 2013. There's one spike in December, which might be ...
03/16/2018
Mark Bathum has retinitis pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease. “I look at the world it's as though I'm seeing through toilet paper tubes,” he said during a medical checkup at UW Medicine before...
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...
06/21/2018
Seattle’s Rat City Roller Derby is extremely lucky to have its very own, full time athletic trainer — a very rare privilege for a roller derby team. Reshmi Bahadur is employed by UW Medicine, but her...
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...
08/09/2018
An emerging bacterial threat, mycoplasma genitalium, that can be passed through sex is making some headlines across the pond as the British Association of Sexual Health and HIV recently drafted...