In Uganda, when a woman feels a lump in her breast, she often feels resigned to getting breast cancer and dying.
Dr. Julie Gralow is a breast cancer specialist and a UW professor of medicine,...
The Woodland Park Zoo staff and its 425-pound gorilla, Vip, all are breathing easier today, thanks to successful sinus surgery performed on the animal by a UW Medicine specialist.
The gorilla had...
Dr. Stu Farber, a founder of UW Medicine's palliative care service who helped patients and their families prepare for life’s end, died Friday at age 67. He had battled acute myelogenous leukemia....
Dr. Estell Williams walked around the tables and watched as each “student doctor” took their first attempt at applying a row of stitches to their “patient.” She stopped in front of Marlisa Hall, 15...
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Each UW Medicine staff member in Woodland Park Zoo’s operating room Aug. 9 understood that providing care for a gorilla was a once-in-a-...
More than 50 children and 10 parents received free dental care at the University of Washington Center for Pediatric Dentistry on Feb. 27 in an event marking the end of Children’s Dental Health...
Vice President Joe Biden is visiting Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, today, March 21 as part of his cancer moonshot “listening tour.”
During his stop, he’ll meet with Fred Hutch researchers...
Sitting at the patient triage station on the floor of Seattle's KeyArena, dentist Mike Buehler questioned the patient, an Asian woman, with the help of her Mandarin interpreter.
“When she chews, does...
A smile can be a work of art. So it’s not surprising that orthodontists in training can use their skills and materials to devise other beautiful creations.
Dr. Lauren Todoki, a resident in the School...
[Editor’s note: UW Medicine writer Brian Donohue visited with Northwest artist David Boxley several times during the six-month totem pole project. Vignettes from that time follow; several videos help...