[See related Q&A with Dr. Eileen Bulger from July 28.]
Researchers at Harborview Medical Center are taking part in a national study to determine what role tranexamic acid plays in decreasing...
Patients who sustain mild traumatic brain injuries can benefit significantly from a 20-minute conversation with a social worker before being discharged from a hospital, according to a recent study...
Catheter-based technology is making mitral-valve repair available to people who cannot undergo heart surgery. Dero Murphy, 89, a recent recipient of the MitraClip, called the procedure's effects "a...
During the summer, emergency department visits jump by about 20 percent at Harborview Medical Center.
“Nearly half of all unintentional injury-related deaths in the United States among children ages...
Editor's note: The headline and story have been corrected and clarified to convey that the study's measure was the proportion of head injuries among all bicycle-related injuries in the cities studied...
A newly established muscular dystrophy research center in Seattle hopes to bring promising laboratory results into therapeutic trials. The center will design and test treatments for the most common...
People hospitalized with a firearm injury are 30 times more likely to return to the hospital with another firearm injury than people hospitalized for other reasons. And they’re 11 times more likely...
[See original HSNewsBeat story, "Clot drug tested with suspected brain injuries" from July 1, 2014. The researchers are seeking public input on the study.]
Harborview Medical Center is one of 10...
Middle-age white men are particularly vulnerable to suicide and "don't tend to ask for help," says Sue Eastgard, director of training at Forefront, a suicide-prevention program in the University of...
[12 p.m. 8.20: Update noting that the guidelines were updated and republished in 2012]
Children with severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) do better when medics and hospital teams adhere to evidence-...