09/30/2020
A new treatment guideline published today aims to improve the care of people everywhere who have diabetes and also face chronic kidney disease. This guideline breaks ground with past efforts by...
04/17/2020
Individuals seeking the UW Medicine antibody test should check with their own healthcare provider. Information for clinicians about ordering an antibody test for a patient or collecting and...
02/12/2020
Several scientists and physicians from the University of Washington School of Medicine will be among the speakers, panelists, press briefing sources, SciMic Stage interviewees and other presenters at...
02/03/2020
In late 2017, Lisa Novak, 44, complained about fatigue to her primary-care doc, who responded, ‘Of course you’re tired, you have three kids and work full-time,” recalled Novak, a realtor on Mercer...
01/17/2019
In the past decade, U.S. adults’ health has generally worsened due to poor nutrition and inactivity. Statin therapy has become the cardiologist’s go-to strategy to reduce patients’ “bad” cholesterol...
01/16/2019
UW Medicine is declaring success with the Pacific Northwest’s first heart-transplant recipient to purposely acquire the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from the donor organ and then have the disease...
10/17/2018
A study published this week reflects that more patients than ever who need aortic-valve heart repair are doing so via a catheter instead of open surgery.
To see one of these catheter procedures is to...
10/03/2018
GeekWire Summit 2018 is a technology conference held this week at the Seattle Sheraton Hotel. The immersive,high-tech gathering brings together more than 900 inventors and developers, experts,...
09/28/2018
It’s fall, which means the cinnamon, pumpkin, mocha drinks are front and center, enticing us to indulge in warm goodness. The allure may fade, though, in view of their caloric and sugar content. ...
09/24/2018
“4 get cancer from donated organ,” blared the headline above a news story last week. It described the case of a woman in Europe who died in 2007. Her undetected breast cancer was transmitted via...