04/08/2021
The millions of people who have chronic sinusitis deal not only with stuffy noses and headaches, they also commonly struggle to focus, and experience depression and other symptoms that implicate the...
12/16/2020
More and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue.
And researchers are discovering why. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, like...
10/28/2020
A major scientific effort is underway to characterize the proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid to improve diagnostics and clinical monitoring assays, and discover potential therapies, for Alzheimer’s...
10/20/2020
Aiming to improve the precision of COVID-19 diagnostics, U.S. radiologists, medical physicists, and computer scientists have created a massive virtual library. Its collection of x-rays and CT scans...
10/05/2020
Antibiotics may be a good choice for some, but not all, patients with appendicitis, according to results from the Comparing Outcomes of antibiotic Drugs and Appendectomy (CODA) Trial reported today...
09/30/2020
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"What if we could build a remote control for cells?" That was the wild idea Kelly Stevens and Daniel Corbett had.
Stevens, assistant professor of bioengineering and laboratory medicine and pathology...
08/17/2020
A UW Medicine researcher, along with colleagues from Italy, Spain and Chile, have defined a new pediatric sleep disorder, which once diagnosed and treated, may help children and their parents get a...
08/04/2020
A team of researchers has developed a new vaccine design strategy that could confer improved immunity against certain viruses, including those that cause AIDS, the flu, and COVID-19. Using this...
07/23/2020
A national contest has sparked six award-winning ideas to reduce the burden of kidney dialysis among 2 million people globally who receive the blood-cleansing therapy to survive.
One winning entry...
06/29/2020
Powdered sugar is the special ingredient in a Rice University recipe for mimicking the body's intricate, branching blood vessels in lab-grown tissues.
In research published today in the journal...