Inspired by one of the simplest, most-used household items ever, a UW cardiologist has created a lifesaver. In the next year, Dr. David Linker expects his invention, which detects dangerous abnormal...
Primatologists like Lisa Jones-Engel at the UW National Primate Research Center can only speculate about why HIV became a human-to-human virus, but they want to prevent another such devastating...
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Dr. Nathan White is an emergency-medicine specialist at Harborview.
Nathan White
A small, plastic-and-silicon card to...
When Heather Evans, a trauma surgeon at Harborview Medical Center, stepped into the operating room wearing an eyeglasses-like, Internet-connected device known as Google Glass, she quickly realized...
Heart attacks and strokes, combined, kill one in three Americans. In November, the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Heart Association (AHA) issued new guidelines and a calculator...
With an intricately woven wire tree adorned with a swing and a bench, Dr. Niousha Saghafi won the annual Department of Orthodontics wire sculpture contest for first-year residents. The contest, first...
In February, one of the largest-ever studies of mammograms yielded findings that might lead women to reconsider the value of those screenings. Joann Elmore, a University of Washington physician and...
A risky surgical lung biopsy might not be needed to confirm idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in patients suspected of having the deadly disorder, but whose lung scans don’t readily reveal a telltale...
When medical student Jory Wasserburger served a rotation in a Wyoming family physician’s office last year, the doctor wondered about the high number of child patients who had untreated tooth decay....
Saloni Parikh combines a passion for public health with talent for computer programming. As an undergraduate in the interdisciplinary honors program, she's already making an impact. For a global...