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,...
06/16/2017
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...
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...
In the near future, your car will call 9-1-1 if it crashes.
Upon impact, a device called an event data recorder will send information to the local 9-1-1 call center. Dispatchers will be able to...
Primatologists like Lisa Jones-Engel at the UW National Primate Research Center can only speculate about why HIV became a human-to-human virus, but they want to prevent another such devastating...
Clot device-Nathan White
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Dr. Nathan White is an emergency-medicine specialist at Harborview.
Nathan White
A small, plastic-and-silicon card to...
It’s a place no one wants to end up: the emergency room. But according to Dr. Gregory Schroedl, an emergency medicine physician and chief medical officer at Northwest Hospital & Medical Center,...
Katie McCabe, a grad student in UW’s School of Public Health, highlights the rationale for immunizing infants and children early in life.