10/23/2018
Murray Raskind, a psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Washington School of Medicine, has helped service veterans get a good night's sleep after dealing with years of nightmares brought...
10/17/2018
Dave Harris will compete this week in an Ironman Triathlon, doing something most thought was impossible. In December 2016, the U.S. Navy commander was involved in a freak accident in which an...
10/12/2018
It's fall, and it's time for a pumpkin spice latte, or some other wonderful concoction which entices the senses. But first, just how much sugar or fat is in that drink? In this KING5 piece, reporter ...
09/11/2018
The walls along the hallways of the University of Washington School of Medicine's surgery department are lined with portraits of (mostly) white surgeons.
One artist/nurse decided to change the...
08/15/2018
Alyssa Ledbetter and her family call Dr. Alisha Brown a guardian angel. Brown was at a park on Mercer Island, near Seattle, when Ledbetter complained to her mom of a sudden, very bad headache, and...
06/28/2018
Reader's Digest reports that gaming disorder has to be evident for at least 12 months. It can’t just be a few hours or few days. Since it’s a clinical condition, the clinical diagnosis of a gaming...
05/09/2018
Though anxiety disorders are the cause for many office visits, not all primary care physicians and internists recognize them, Dr. Heidi Combs, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral...
04/30/2018
She took one hit of heroin and “ended up dead for a few seconds,” recounted UW Medicine psychiatrist Richard Ries, describing a patient. Years later, though, the woman got married and returned to...
04/20/2018
Separate collisions had landed the boy in two Seattle-area emergency departments. Most of his needs were met without fail, but there were some delays.
If you end up needing emergency care, how do...
04/11/2018
Brain tumor patients and their families face uncertainty, a sense of feeling alone, and helplessness. To diminish that burden, the The National Brain Tumor Society recently announced a new effort to...