08/29/2018
In a KIRO 7 News story, reporter Deborah Horne talks to UW Medicine physician Jonathan Drezner about the need for EKGs during routine sports screenings for young athletes. Commenting on a U.K. study...
06/21/2018
Seattle’s Rat City Roller Derby is extremely lucky to have its very own, full time athletic trainer — a very rare privilege for a roller derby team. Reshmi Bahadur is employed by UW Medicine, but her...
06/11/2018
For the first time since it began training new doctors here, the University of Washington School of Medicine’s incoming class is populated entirely by students who picked the Lilac City over Seattle...
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...
03/08/2018
Physician success stories usually have a common thread: an important mentor, or possibly more than one key mentor, whose guidance proved invaluable.
And in this day of digital communication, Dr. Best...
03/03/2018
Dr. Chuck Murry, director of the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, is among those who worry about some of the promises being made by stem cell clinics.
“Many of these places are...
02/07/2018
The Seattle Times chronicles the chain of events in two cases in which trauma patients' lives were saved with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines.
Harborview Medical Center employs the...
01/25/2018
While most suicide intervention efforts have been focused on mental health and emergency room settings, professionals throughout all medical fields play a critical role in suicide prevention.
Now,...