In 2001 and out of the blue, Kristina Teel, a wife and mother, started having odd health symptoms.
“If I coughed or got up too fast, I would get severe pain in the back of my head, which would...
A wearable device that creates electrical fields to suppress cancer cells’ proliferation in the brain was so effective at extending patients’ survival that the clinical trial in which it was being...
Imagine that you had an appendectomy a week ago. Things had been going well until today. Now your incision site is swollen, red, tender. Maybe infected. Do you wait until your post-op appointment...
Using electrodes implanted in the temporal lobes of awake patients, scientists have decoded brain signals at nearly the speed of perception. Further, analysis of patients’ neural responses to two...
Taking benzodiazepines (widely used drugs to treat anxiety and insomnia) is not associated with an increased dementia risk in older adults, finds a study published by The BMJ today.
These results do...
Seasha Hassett pondered the invitation from a UW Medicine doctor: Would she be willing to enroll her twins, born prematurely at 25 weeks' gestation, in a trial of a new therapy that might prevent...
A small peptide dubbed TAxI is living up to its name. Recent studies show it to be an effective vehicle for shuttling functional proteins, such as active enzymes, into the spinal cord after a muscle...
On July 11, 2015, eight people crowded into a clinic room at UW Medical Center, expectantly watching Steven Gilbert.
They included his neurologist, neurophysiologist, and his partner of more than...
A Harborview Medical Center neurosurgeon performed an emergency procedure this week that saved a Seattle teenager from a potentially devastating stroke.
Bella Anderson, a Ballard High School senior...
The Zika virus definitely causes birth defects, according to a special report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published April 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The author...