09/21/2023
Type: YouTube
Infectious disease specialist Dr. Helen Chu anticipates the upcoming viral season will include a jump in illnesses caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the flu, and COVID-19.
“We expect that...
09/19/2023
Type: YouTube
Ruikang “Ricky” Wang’s inventive work helped usher in a new era of eye imaging. Now the UW Medicine researcher is testing ways people can identify healthcare concerns with their smartphones.
“The...
08/21/2023
Type: YouTube
Parents should be especially mindful to protect young children from exposure to wildfire smoke when air quality plummets to unhealthy levels.
"Kids breathe more, they breathe faster, and they take in...
08/18/2023
Type: YouTube
With the start of the school year approaching, adolescent medicine expert Dr. Yolanda Evans says this season of change is a key time for parents to be attuned to changes in their children’s mental...
07/11/2023
Dr. Markus Boos is an associate professor in the Department of Pediatrics and director of the Dermatology Residency Program. He discusses the medical problems he's seeing caused by hotter...
07/10/2023
New research has discovered neurons within the brain which detect and respond to changes in the level of sugar within the bloodstream.
Understanding how this blood-sugar detection system works and...
06/20/2023
How and what you eat influences how you think.
That is the case Dr. Iman Majd will try to make Thursday in the second lecture in the Cha Chi Ming Education Series. Majd directs the Osher Center for...
02/09/2023
Type: YouTube
UW Medicine neuroscientist Larry Zweifel says the human brain is fast at work whenever we meet someone new, and if the moving chemicals in our mind react just right, the result makes us gush with...
02/06/2023
Type: YouTube
More than 3 in 10 injuries admitted to U.S. burn centers are a result of scald burns from hot water or other liquids, or steam. American Burn Association data shows that 61% of scald burn victims are...
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...