In June, doctors from around the world will gather in Seattle for no good medical reason. Instead, they’ll pull on tuxedos and gowns and show off their classical-music chops at Benaroya Hall and, of...
“Alzheimer’s is driven by genetics, but it isn’t just one disease,” said Dr. Thomas Montine, chair of the University of Washington’s Department of Pathology. “It’s a disease that has many different...
Karalee Jacobs noticed her mother, Alice, becoming more forgetful and anxious back in 2007, but she just attributed it to age. A few years later, a family friend and retired nurse expressed concern...
Depression and type 2 diabetes were each associated with an increased risk for dementia. The risk was even greater among individuals diagnosed with both depression and diabetes, according to work led...
Nearly 90 percent of people with prediabetes are unaware they have it and are in danger of developing Type 2 diabetes. A simple screening can identify those at risk.
Diabetes is a debilitating...
By day, Harborview Medical Center’s artists are peering at x-rays, listening to heartbeats through stethoscopes, and finessing computer code. But by night – or afternoons, depending on their shifts...
Eighty-some members of the World Doctors Orchestra played a benefit concert June 6 at Harborview Medical Center. Dozens of patients, family members and hospital staff attended.
Assembled in very...
Soon after returning home from a stay in Africa, a 31-year-old female patient experienced disabling headaches, distorted vision, and sensations of pins and needles on a finger and a foot. A brain MRI...
In a one-hour window at Harborview Medical Center, Maria Paulsen moves between gurneys of five people with apparently serious wounds – from a motorcycle crash, a car crash, a gunshot, a stabbing and...
Pacific Northwesterners have been on edge this week because of a New Yorker article about the Cascadia subduction zone, a fault line that separates the North American and Juan de Fuca tectonic plates...