11/07/2017
On average one in 10 people who live at Seattle's latitude suffer from the winter blues or seasonal affective disorder known as SAD, according to Dr. David Avery, a UW Medicine psychiatrist. He...
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-...
01/02/2018
Adults forget the value of laughter, says Tita Begashaw. "Adults laugh about 30 times a day, children 300 times a day. Go back! Act like a child!"
She exhorts her biweekly laughter yoga class of...
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...
03/23/2018
Dr. Mary-Claire King, a professor at the University of Washington School of Medicine, sent 400 DNA samples to Color Genomics to see if its at-home saliva test could detect mutations. When the...
04/11/2018
Brain tumor patients and their families face uncertainty, a sense of feeling alone, and helplessness. To diminish that burden, the The National Brain Tumor Society recently announced a new effort to...
04/21/2018
Though overall patient numbers are still relatively low, syphilis is rising steeply nationwide, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. You may be surprised to learn that hearing...
05/14/2018
The 2018 Shaw Prize honors King's pioneering work in breast cancer genetics.
At the UW School of Medicine, King is a professor of genome sciences and is an American Cancer Society Professor in the...
05/21/2018
More donor organs have become available due to overdose deaths. UW Medicine’s chief of transplantation surgery Dr. Jorge Reyes talks about the organs’ health, risk of infection transmission, and the...
05/23/2018
Dr. Mary-Claire King was recently on the Indiana University campus to receive the Hermann J. Muller award, and to give this year’s Muller Lecture on genetics and genomics. While she was there, she...