Diana Sage-Jenkins was the first to notice the connection between her daughter Sarah Jenkins, 6, and pediatric resident Alok Patel.
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In what is likely to be a major step forward in the study of influenza, cystic fibrosis and other human diseases, an international research effort has sequenced the ferret genome. The sequence was...
Owners of older dogs often wish their elderly pet could be granted a few more years to trot along on a walk, chase a ball, even dig up the backyard. Dogs have much shorter lives compared to people. ...
It’s a dog eat dog world, and bacteria have been living in it for a long time. It’s of no surprise that bacteria have a sophisticated arsenal to compete with each other for valuable resources in the...
[Editor's note: Guy Maddison and his family have relocated and he no longer works at Harborview Medical Center.]
In blue scrubs, Guy Maddison cradles a cup of cafeteria-grade coffee and offers a warm...
Mark Oberle, his wife and son, then 14, arrived on the Thai island of Phuket late on Christmas Day, 2004. By the time they checked in at their hotel and plopped down their bags, it was nearly...
The patient story is usually incomplete. This is the challenge that Sarah Kolnik, a general surgery intern, faced during her four-week rotation on the burn intensive care unit at Harborview Medical...
A large community of microorganisms calls the human digestive tract home. This dynamic conglomerate of microscopic life forms – the gut microbiome – is vital to how people metabolize various...
While health-conscious individuals understand the benefits of eating fresh fruits and veggies, they may not be aware of the volume of pesticides they could be ingesting with their vitamin C and fiber...
Writer Claudia Dreifus talks with University of Washington scientist Mary-Claire King about what led to her breast-cancer gene discovery, the work that has followed, and why King thinks women over 30...