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,...
08/07/2017
Usually, clear blue skies mark the end of summer in the Northwest. But not this year. Smoke from fires in British Columbia, combined with record breaking temperatures saw an uptick in patients...
08/31/2017
People whose digestive tract harbors a bacteria called c. Difficile can suffer from diarrhea for weeks or months, and in some cases, years. Antibiotics can resolve most such infections, but when...
09/04/2017
The smoke-filled air that has enveloped Seattle for several days makes breathing especially difficult for people with asthma and other lung conditions, says UW Medicine pulmonologist Joshua Benditt...
11/28/2017
Surgeons at UW Medicine in Seattle have performed the first liver transplant in the Pacific Northwest involving a warm blood-perfusion device to transport the organ between donor and recipient.
Paul...
12/08/2017
"The app is able to be a lot more accurate and detect more subtle changes than the human eye can, even that of a practiced clinician," said Dr. Lynn McGrath, a UW Medicine neurological surgery...
02/07/2018
The Seattle Times chronicles the chain of events in two cases in which trauma patients' lives were saved with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines.
Harborview Medical Center employs the...
03/15/2018
A UW Medicine surgeon performed a landmark procedure this week, implanting tiny steroid-releasing devices in a patient’s sinuses to reduce the recurrence of nasal polyps. It was the device’s first...
04/20/2018
Separate collisions had landed the boy in two Seattle-area emergency departments. Most of his needs were met without fail, but there were some delays.
If you end up needing emergency care, how do...
07/20/2018
Anyone walking through the doors of Harborview Medical Center will come across a story. Bear attacks, skateboard accidents, car crashes, bike collisions, shootings and burns are among the...