12/23/2020
The question of whether pregnant women should receive the COVID-19 vaccine is a rather basic one for Dr. Linda Eckert, an UW Medicine obstetrician and gynecologist and an infectious disease expert. ...
12/23/2020
Type: YouTube
Is it safe for pregnant people to get the COVID-19 vaccine? As of right now, Dr. Linda Eckert, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Washington School of Medicine, says it's an...
11/02/2020
Type: YouTube
This year, with COVID-19 and the swooning economy, people are grappling with a lot more uncertainty. Add to that a contentious election whose outcome may not be known right away and the coming winter...
09/18/2020
Type: YouTube
Any virus can infect heart-muscle cells, but the novel coronavirus appears to have a particularly detrimental effect, which cardiologists are trying to understand. Autopsy studies of very sick...
09/10/2020
How has the pandemic been for kids?
In general, teens are feeling lonely and younger kids are feeling socially isolated and anxious, said Leslie Graham, a pediatric social worker at the UW Medicine...
07/16/2020
Type: YouTube
Pregnant women, especially in their last trimester, need to be very guarded to avoid contracting COVID-19, according to new statewide data collected by a group of obstetricians across several ...
02/03/2020
In late 2017, Lisa Novak, 44, complained about fatigue to her primary-care doc, who responded, ‘Of course you’re tired, you have three kids and work full-time,” recalled Novak, a realtor on Mercer...
10/29/2019
Dr. Kemi Doll, a UW Medicine gynecologic oncologist, has long studied endometrial cancer. It's work that reflects a bigger issue, she says: “Healthcare for black women isn’t really the same as it is...
10/09/2019
Type: YouTube
Based on new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 65% of moms-to-be in the United States have not received vaccinations for the flu and whooping cough.
Pregnant women are a high-...
09/27/2019
Most women now know to how to check for breast cancer. And a yearly pap smear to check for cervical cancer is de rigueur. But awareness of endometrial cancer, not so much.
That bothers Dr. Kemi...