In a dimly lit basement room, Kate Sweeney is working cheek by jowl with renowned orthopedic surgeon Sigvard Hansen. They’re placing a screw in a patient’s ankle.
“These are drill holes with bone...
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...
CAN you help my teenager with his sleep? This is a question we frequently encounter at the University of Washington Medicine Sleep Center and Seattle Children’s Sleep Disorders Clinic. We are often...
High school students Grace Jennings and Jackson Gode would love to see the stigma of sickness change around the world. The two 17-year-olds traveled to Zambia with an intramural club at Seattle...
Hernia: It’s something that happens to millions of Americans. A hernia is a condition in which an organ or internal tissue bulges through a weak spot in the muscle or connective tissue that surrounds...
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...
After suffering a traumatic injury, many people are concerned about more than their physical well-being. Worries can mount about how the injury will affect their employment and financial security,...
Instead of coasting toward graduation last spring, Kaitlin Poppe had a better plan: serving at-risk patients.
Poppe, who received her D.D.S. from UW in June, spent the spring at the Yakima Valley...
Fewer high school students across the U.S. started drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes, committing crimes and engaging in violence before graduation when their towns used the Communities That Care ...