06/19/2017
For once, she said, her dad didn’t have to check on her during the night.
Peyton Miller was reflecting on the biggest change posed by the new insulin pump that she’s worn for a month.
“He used to...
09/26/2017
Beginning four years ago, 15 women with incurable (metastatic triple-negative) breast cancer were enrolled in a unique clinical trial. It explored one concept of “precision medicine” – the suggestion...
09/27/2017
Certain species of the gut microbiome seem to borrow a page from mercenaries in feudal Japan in their quest for supremacy. A study in Cell Host & Microbe shows that strains from the group...
10/02/2017
[Update 8:25 a.m. Oct. 3 to clarify that dental services will be provided only to current patients of the Safe Harbor Free Clinic of Stanwood.]
Dental services and general health screenings will be...
12/29/2017
A recent national news story called attention to an “epidemic” of unnecessary cancer screenings among senior citizens in the United States. Is it ethical medicine, for example, to advise an 89-year-...
02/27/2018
As if it was not unnerving enough to get breast cancer: Many women who survive breast cancer run the risk of having the cancer return in another part of the body.
That’s something that cancer...
02/06/2018
If you were diagnosed with glioblastoma — a brain cancer that, with conventional chemotherapy and radiation treatment, is usually fatal within 12 to 15 months — would you try a novel therapy that...
02/07/2018
Each year about 45 million Americans go on a diet, but many have no idea that they could be changing their microbiome in the process. While some of the changes can be beneficial, other changes in...
03/21/2018
Seattle Mayor Jenny Durkan today announced that she and Councilwoman M. Lorena Gonzalez will propose legislation within the next month to require safe storage of all firearms in the city.
“We know...
03/29/2018
Washington state has a new breast density notification law, which requires facilities which perform mammography to notify women if they have dense breast tissue. With this new law, Washington joins...