08/17/2017
A UW Medicine cardiologist has taken another step into the realm of heart surgeons in performing a first-in-the-world intentional cut via catheter to replace a patient’s failed artificial aortic...
08/10/2017
Drug use caused the deaths of 332 King County residents in 2016, a new record, with opioid-involved overdoses accounting for more than two-thirds of those deaths, according to an annual report...
08/31/2017
Virtual reality (VR) is emerging as a therapy in a variety of medical fields, and is now being used to control pain. SnowWorld, a VR game, was developed by UW Medicine Drs. Hunter Hoffman, a research...
09/14/2017
The University of Washington’s School of Dentistry is acutely aware of the opioid crisis and the role dentists must play in terms of more stringent prescribing guidelines and other measures.
Dr. Rolf...
09/21/2017
"We have been treating people with opioid addictions for more than 30 years. It doesn’t make sense to us that, as the United States finally gears up to fight this epidemic, most clinicians are using...
10/05/2017
Virtual reality and hypnosis are two ways that UW Medicine pain-medicine specialists are trying to reduce patients' dependence on opioids.
Included in this PBS special report are Dr. David Tauben, ...
10/25/2017
Writes reporter-at-larger Patrick Radden Keefe: "Purdue has continued to fight aggressively against any measures that might limit the distribution of OxyContin, in a way that calls to mind the gun...
11/02/2017
If "fall back" means an extra hour of sleep, why do I still feel groggy?
Daylight is the primary regulator of our body's circadian rhythms -- and Daylight Saving Time ends Sunday. It means earlier...
11/07/2017
A provocative study and accompanying commentary in The Lancet last week is drawing fierce rebuttals from cardiologists.
The study was the first randomized trial to compare two groups of people with a...