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...
11/30/2020
Harborview Medical Center has been designated a Foster Care Center of Excellence by Coordinated Care, the managed care provider for the Apple Health Foster Care program. With this designation,...
10/23/2020
UW Medicine and MultiCare Health System have signed an agreement making Airlift Northwest the preferred air transport service for pediatric patients needing care at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital...
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...
06/29/2020
Sports at every level is being re-evaluated for safety of play going into this summer and fall. In addition to COVID-19 considerations, the awareness of the critical nature of athlete safety and...
05/11/2020
It's understandable that people are worried during the COVID-19 pandemic. But they shouldn't avoid seeking the care they need. Dr. Tom Courtney, a pediatrician at UW Medicine’s Kent-Des Moines Clinic...
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,...
02/22/2019
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...
02/07/2019
Is it true that vaccinations increase antibodies and provide herd immunity?
Vaccinations work by training the body’s immune system and increasing protective antibodies. Vaccines teach the immune...
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...