12/30/2020
Not unexpectedly, UW Medicine Newsroom viewers in 2020 were most interested in news about coronavirus research and developments in the care of pandemic COVID-19 patients. The dozen most views...
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...
09/25/2020
Ground was broken this week for a new hub for medical and health education, research and innovation to be anchored by the University of Washington School of Medicine-Gonzaga University Health...
08/25/2020
As many schools go online-only and cancel fall sports, this doesn’t mean youth sports and practices are a no-show come September.
“Right now in King County, we don’t have the public health approval...
05/19/2020
The repercussions from COVID-19 are being felt across all segments of society, and now thousands of surgeons worldwide have assessed the impact to canceled surgeries.
The CovidSurg Collaborative...
07/31/2019
Medical school administrators have known for years that initially healthy clinician trainees go on to experience depression, burnout and suicide at higher rates than the general population. Early...
05/03/2019
Almost half (48%) of injuries to commuters on rental scooters involve a head trauma, and 15% are traumatic brain injuries, according to a report issued this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease...
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,...
02/13/2019
In this digital age, would you expect people to consider undergoing psychotherapy sessions online? Turns out it depends.
Researchers at the University of Washington School of Medicine and Rutgers...
01/30/2019
Only a couple of years ago, standard care for managing a diagnosed concussion was to rest the patient in a darkened room and minimize their brain stimulation. Sports-medicine specialists now think...