01/17/2023
Advances in understanding the many different genetic causes of childhood-onset hearing loss indicate that genomic testing could assist in treatment planning, including optimal timing of treatment...
01/11/2023
Want to eat for science? Recruiting starts this month for the first test in humans of whether higher-caloric diets spur MRI-detectable inflammation in the hypothalamus, the brain structure that...
11/10/2022
A new study shows that when an experimental cancer medication is split in half, the molecule becomes safer and more effective.
Scientists at the University of Washington School of Medicine were...
10/26/2022
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As of Oct. 26, the UW Medicine Virology Lab had detected nearly 90 cases of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in samples from throughout the Puget Sound region.
Sparrow Helland, a registered nurse...
10/05/2022
UW Medicine physician/scientist Danny E. Miller has received a competitive National Institutes of Health Director’s Early Independence Award, which provides up to $1.25 million over 5 years. Miller...
09/07/2022
A technique that combines nanotechnology with artificial intelligence can diagnose tuberculosis in children in whom the deadly disease might otherwise go undetected, an international team of...
09/01/2022
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As students return to classrooms, pediatrician Dr. Beth Ebel says this is a sensible time for children to receive a booster COVID-19 vaccination, if they’re eligible.
“Getting this (current) third...
08/18/2022
Andre Berndt, assistant professor in the Department of Bioengineering, University of Washington in Seattle has received the 2022 McKnight Technological Innovations in Neuroscience Award for work that...
08/18/2022
Of the more than 795,000 Americans who will experience a stroke this year, one in four will be severely disabled. While physical and occupational therapy can help survivors regain some lost function...
07/14/2022
Adding erythropoietin to cooling therapy for term newborns with birth asphyxia has no benefit over cooling therapy alone, a study published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The findings...