11/07/2017
A provocative study and accompanying commentary in The Lancet last week is drawing fierce rebuttals from cardiologists.
The study was the first randomized trial to compare two groups of people with a...
01/17/2018
Globally 2 billion people are overweight, says a study by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, based at UW Medicine in Seattle.
The average American consumes the daily equivalent of 19.5...
01/10/2018
What looks like a futuristic fishing rod helps cardiologists see what’s malfunctioning in a patient’s heart. It’s a diagnostic called transesophageal echocardiography. Doctors maneuver the flexible...
02/14/2018
An ambitious new program focused on pediatric oral health training will involve practitioners and students in several schools at the University of Washington and external partners including Eastern...
03/27/2018
U.S. Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Seattle) will meet Thursday, March 29, with heart specialists at UW Medical Center in Seattle. She has introduced a bill in this session of Congress to increase research...
07/17/2018
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Come September, when Debbie Davis returns to work as an aide at Morgan Middle School, she’ll have an incomparable “what I did...
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...
08/23/2018
“Congenital heart disease” sounds like one condition, but the term applies to upward of 20 structural abnormalities , such as malformed chambers and incomplete vessel junctions. For decades, the...
09/28/2018
It’s fall, which means the cinnamon, pumpkin, mocha drinks are front and center, enticing us to indulge in warm goodness. The allure may fade, though, in view of their caloric and sugar content. ...
10/11/2018
Late last week the FDA approved making Gardasil 9, the vaccine to protect against human papillomavirus, available to women and men up to age 45. The vaccine had initially been rolled out to...