Depression and type 2 diabetes were each associated with an increased risk for dementia. The risk was even greater among individuals diagnosed with both depression and diabetes, according to work led...
Nearly 90 percent of people with prediabetes are unaware they have it and are in danger of developing Type 2 diabetes. A simple screening can identify those at risk.
Diabetes is a debilitating...
Western Washington is known for moderate summer temperatures, but two just-published studies make clear the peril of King County's hottest days.
“As climate change increases the intensity and...
Soon after returning home from a stay in Africa, a 31-year-old female patient experienced disabling headaches, distorted vision, and sensations of pins and needles on a finger and a foot. A brain MRI...
Researchers at the UW Medicine, Veteran's Administration Puget Sound and Saint Louis University have made a promising discovery that insulin delivered high up in the nasal cavity goes to affected...
As a research nurse at Seattle Children’s Hospital, Rebecca O’Connor observed a troubling phenomenon. Children of East African descent — first or second generation immigrants — were being diagnosed...
Doctors are questioning whether half the population over age 70 truly have serious kidney disease. International guidelines are based on measurements that might not coincide with the risk of...
In a push to keep health professions on pace with changing demographics, the University of Washington will create a Health Professions Academy to cultivate and recruit undergraduate students from...
Mini-kidney organoids that re-create human kidney disease have now been grown in laboratory petri dishes. The achievement, believed to be the first of its kind, resulted from combining stem cell...
The U.S Food and Drug Administration has granted Expedited Access Pathway status to the Wearable Artificial Kidney (WAK) after the device performed successfully in its first U.S. clinical trial, at...