Zack Lystedt's long road back from a 2006 head injury included moments of bliss this past weekend. Not only did he watch his beloved Seahawks win the Super Bowl, but he and his parents were at the...
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 Uganda, when a woman feels a lump in her breast, she often feels resigned to getting breast cancer and dying.
Dr. Julie Gralow is a breast cancer specialist and a UW professor of medicine,...
The Woodland Park Zoo staff and its 425-pound gorilla, Vip, all are breathing easier today, thanks to successful sinus surgery performed on the animal by a UW Medicine specialist.
The gorilla had...
A young donor to the University of Washington got quite a bang for his seven bucks this week.
Anders Clark, a first-grader at Seattle’s Bryant Elementary School, earned $7 for turning in Halloween...
In 1936, while accepting his renomination for the presidency, Franklin D. Roosevelt said, “This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.”
Don Raleigh arrived at his rendezvous at 7:55 a...
Dr. Estell Williams walked around the tables and watched as each “student doctor” took their first attempt at applying a row of stitches to their “patient.” She stopped in front of Marlisa Hall, 15...
She’s won awards for pioneering approaches to pharmacy, but UW faculty member Elyse Tung remains modest about her work. “My goal has never been to win an award but to be very productive, offer the...
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Each UW Medicine staff member in Woodland Park Zoo’s operating room Aug. 9 understood that providing care for a gorilla was a once-in-a-...
John Meehan, a pioneer in pediatric robotic surgery, is used to speaking at medical conferences. But when he traveled to Russia in August for a meeting of pediatric surgeons, he was thrust into an...