03/20/2019
Type: YouTube
Much news of late has focused on the benefits that children realize from immunizations. There are important vaccines that older adults should be aware of, too. John Lynch, medical director of...
11/07/2017
Type: MediaAMP
Unrelated to alcohol, sugar consumption is the root of most liver transplants in young Americans, a recent study shows. Dr. Judy Chen of UW Medicine's Weight Loss Management Center, talks about...
10/09/2017
Type: MediaAMP
(Downloadable video and broadcast script). Dr. Jorge Reyes describes a clinical trial of a new device for transporting donor livers between recovery and transplant, and potential upsides if the...
11/30/2017
Type: MediaAMP
Patient Paul Hamilton discusses his recovery after transplant surgery involving a "liver in a box" device.
11/28/2017
Type: MediaAMP
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....
03/05/2018
Type: MediaAMP
The UW Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation reports that asthma is the most common chronic respiratory disease worldwide. Ali Mokdad, professor global health, said asthma is an expensive...
02/06/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Some 45 million Americans go on a diet each year. Most don't realize that, in doing so, they are changing their microbiomes.
“Every time you diet, it’s causing fluctuations in the compositions of...
08/27/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Imagine your child going back to school and not being able to enjoy favorite activites, like singing, dancing, or running. That was the reality for 8-year-old Alaya Rogers until she took control of...
08/24/2018
Type: MediaAMP
A recent global study from McMaster University finds that low-salt diets might not be that great for you after all, if you're healthy. Judy Simon, a registered dietitian and nutritionist with UW...
08/15/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Smoke from the wildfires in Canada, Oregon and Eastern Washington blanketed Western Washington this week, and it’s been difficult for Jeremiah Brown, 8, who struggles with asthma, to catch his breath...