02/11/2021
You know how great it feels when someone makes a pie or cake just for you? UW Medicine head and neck surgeons have been feeling that kind of love lately, and on Feb. 5 they shared the first slice,...
12/03/2020
The Pacific Northwest’s drizzly, gray winters sometimes leave even then the most upbeat among us feeling down.
This year, the added stressors of a global pandemic, a contentious election, and...
12/03/2020
Type: YouTube
Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a common form of depression that happens with a change in the seasons. This winter is proving to be even tougher with the coronavirus and cultural and economic...
07/17/2020
Deep brain stimulation, in which electrodes implanted in a person’s brain carry electrical pulses from a pacemaker-like unit implanted in the chest, has been used for more than two decades. These...
10/29/2019
Type: YouTube
Paul Carter looks forward to his Fridays at Harborview Medical Center. He volunteers there, talking to patients in the trauma unit who need support. His experience as a patient after a 2015 shooting...
08/29/2019
Type: YouTube
It was a windy day back in 2008. Lily James was in a boat on Lake Washington with her family and friends when the wind lifted an inflatable that was tied to a rope. Like a vise, the rope caught her...
03/26/2019
It’s a function of age, mostly, when an aortic valve starts to fail. At the gateway where oxygenated blood leaves the heart, the leaflets of tissue that regulate flow start to act like rusty hinges,...
03/15/2019
Type: YouTube
It's hard to hear about - a man arrested after a mass shooting at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Even if you're not close to it, seeing the headlines in your newsfeed on social media can...
03/12/2019
Type: YouTube
Did you know that a Level I Trauma Center provides total care for every aspect of a serious injury, from prevention through treatment and rehabilitation?
The only Level 1 Trauma Center that covers...
02/22/2019
Every year across the United States, several thousand young people with a serious lifelong illness are released from pediatric care to an often confusing, sometimes uncaring world of adult care.
That...