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...
08/24/2017
Tests commonly used to diagnose oral and genital herpes are often unreliable, missing some cases of infection and, in others, identifying an infection that does not exist, say researchers at the...
10/11/2017
In 2015, UW Medicine in Seattle was first in a national study to transplant a heart that had traveled between donor and recipient in a blood-circulation machine instead of an icy cooler. Now its...
10/26/2017
The Kidney Research Institute, a collaboration of UW Medicine and Northwest Kidney Centers in Seattle, has a major role in an ambitious, newly funded effort to care more precisely for the tens of...
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...
02/05/2018
In a study of nearly 6,000 patients with chronic kidney disease and heart failure, the use of implantable cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs) was associated with a significantly increased risk of...
02/26/2018
An insulin-mimicking peptide has now been shown to not only lower blood sugars, but also slow the progression of atherosclerosis in mice.
Cardiovascular problems from atherosclerosis - plaque-like...
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...
03/15/2018
The University of Washington School of Medicine, part of UW Medicine, will establish the world’s first academic department devoted to the science of health metrics. The new Department of Health...
03/16/2018
Today at exactly noon EDT (9 a.m. PDT in Seattle), fourth-year med students across the country opened envelopes and checked smart phone apps to see the fruits of their years of hard work and...