Dozens of U.S. medical experts will meet in Pittsburgh tomorrow to discuss prospective next steps in the prevention and treatment of sports concussions. The National Football League is sponsoring the...
Why is it so difficult to locate and study the parts of the human genome that make humans distinct from other animals? In looking a this question, The Altantic spoke with Evan Eichler, professor of...
In order to fit within the nucleus of a cell, the human genome must bend, fold and coil into an unimaginably compact shape – and still function. This is no mean feat: The human genome is about 6.5...
Dr. Bonnie W. Ramsey, a leader in cystic fibrosis clinical care and research, has been elected to membership in the National Academy of Medicine. Ramsey is a UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s...
David Eyre, University of Washington professor of orthopedics and sports medicine, was named the 2015 UW Medicine Inventor of the Year for pioneering a diagnostic test to measure bone loss. He will...
Several million babies born each year in Africa and South Asia can’t breastfeed due to prematurity or craniofacial anomalies like cleft lip or palate.
Now a collaboration of PATH, Seattle Children's...
Finally, Western Washington’s extended summer is giving way to autumn. And with that, ICU nurses are bracing for the predictable increase in falls from ladders and roofs. From now till April, more...
Mini-kidney organoids that re-create human kidney disease have now been grown in laboratory petri dishes. The achievement, believed to be the first of its kind, resulted from combining stem cell...
Outside of Operating Room 12 at UW Medical Center, the surgical nurse is entering information about Jaime McClanahan Cuzick.
She asks a visitor, "What is her relation to the recipient?”
“Her friend...
The UW Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science has launched a program to expand mental health services across the state.
The program will train psychiatrists to partner and consult with...