02/23/2021
Decades ago, blue lights helped shoppers scope out sales. Today they’re helping urologists scope out cells, specifically those of non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
UW Medicine urologists with the...
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...
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...
09/26/2019
In the margin of his thesis at his medical school in Greece in the 1950s, his advisor wrote “young dreamer.” The comment was directed at his hopes for treating inherited blood disorders affecting...
07/15/2019
Type: YouTube
When the chance of treating cancer through a bone marrow transplant relies on strangers, it can be scary. According to Be the Match, Caucasians have a 77 percent chance of finding a match through the...
01/17/2019
In the past decade, U.S. adults’ health has generally worsened due to poor nutrition and inactivity. Statin therapy has become the cardiologist’s go-to strategy to reduce patients’ “bad” cholesterol...
11/15/2018
In 2012, Rebekah Fenton gave a lifesaving gift of bone marrow to her younger sister, Elisabeth, who was battling a recurrence of Hodgkin’s lymphoma. On Nov. 9, the sixth anniversary of the transplant...
10/17/2018
A study published this week reflects that more patients than ever who need aortic-valve heart repair are doing so via a catheter instead of open surgery.
To see one of these catheter procedures is to...
09/24/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Dr. Gail Jarvik from the UW Medicine Division of Medical Genetics, and Dr. Katrina Dipple, from Seattle Children's Genetic Medicine, explain how the new clinical site will serve adult and pediatric ...
08/31/2018
As of Aug. 31, 2018, UW Medicine’s heart transplant team had received eight patient referrals from Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) after the suspension of its heart-transplant program.
“Our...