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...
10/27/2020
As flu season gets underway, researchers hope that thousands will reach for their smartphones to share helpful data.
One app is recruiting 25,000 people across the United States to monitor health,...
09/18/2020
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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
David Baker, professor of biochemistry at the UW School of Medicine and director of the Institute for Protein Design is among four University of Washington professors named winners of the 2021...
04/23/2020
As treasures go, this may not rival Apple’s market capitalization or even the immeasurable riches of “It’s a Wonderful Life” hero George Bailey. But MRI scans of 4,796 patients’ knees have become a...
04/22/2020
When the 160 first- and second-year UW School of Medicine students returned to Gonzaga from Spring Break, they learned their education would shift to a virtual format because of COVID-19. While...
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...
10/18/2019
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a troubling 56% increase in the risk of suicide among young people ages 10 to 24 over a 10-year period.
In this group of children,...
10/03/2019
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UW Medicine is creating the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions to develop effective new treatments for brain disorders, with foundational funding of $50 million from philanthropists Lynn and...
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...