11/18/2019
If you get cancer, you are likely to be sent to a state-of-the art hospital. But if you have a mental health crisis in Washington state, you could end up in a deteriorating hospital built in the late...
09/10/2019
Type: YouTube
For Suicide Awareness Day, Amanda Kerbrat, a research scientist in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, is teaching health-care providers how to implement a simple but powerful tool...
08/20/2019
Type: YouTube
Some people might think that tracking their sleep will give insight into their sleep quality, but some case studies at Rush University and Northwestern University found obsessing over the results on...
08/07/2019
UW Medicine’s lung-transplant team, the only such providers in the Pacific Northwest, performed their 1,000th transplant on July 7, 2019. Ten other U.S. programs have reached such a milestone.
“This...
08/06/2019
Type: YouTube
On July 7, 2019, Dr. Michael Mulligan performed UW Medicine's 1,000th lung transplant.
"Our program has been a high-volume center for quite some time," said Mulligan, who oversees that service and...
07/12/2019
In the first year of a new protocol, UW Medicine specialists transplanted 13 patients with donor organs – seven hearts and six livers – from people who had active hepatitis C before they died.
“...
07/12/2019
Type: YouTube
"We see patients who have received and are doing well after an organ transplant who might not have lived ... if we had not had this program in place," says Dr. Ajit Limaye. His team oversees UW...
01/16/2019
UW Medicine is declaring success with the Pacific Northwest’s first heart-transplant recipient to purposely acquire the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from the donor organ and then have the disease...
10/10/2018
Type: YouTube
Heidi Combs, medical director of inpatient psychiatry at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, says anxiety is the No. 1 reason people come to primary care. She also says there is an increase in...
09/24/2018
“4 get cancer from donated organ,” blared the headline above a news story last week. It described the case of a woman in Europe who died in 2007. Her undetected breast cancer was transmitted via...