10/27/2020
As flu season gets underway, researchers hope that thousands will reach for their smartphones to share helpful data.
One app is recruiting 25,000 people across the United States to monitor health,...
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...
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...
06/29/2020
Researchers are expressing disappointment at their just-published finding that the drug allopurinol, used for decades to reduce uric acid in people with gout, does not slow type 1 diabetes from...
04/23/2020
As treasures go, this may not rival Apple’s market capitalization or even the immeasurable riches of “It’s a Wonderful Life” hero George Bailey. But MRI scans of 4,796 patients’ knees have become a...
04/22/2020
When the 160 first- and second-year UW School of Medicine students returned to Gonzaga from Spring Break, they learned their education would shift to a virtual format because of COVID-19. While...
03/19/2020
The UW School of Medicine Match Day event at The HUB has been canceled for public-safety considerations regarding COVID-19.
Instead, the National Resident Matching Program will send an email at 9 a.m...
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...
10/18/2019
New data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention show a troubling 56% increase in the risk of suicide among young people ages 10 to 24 over a 10-year period.
In this group of children,...
08/16/2019
When a child suffers a head trauma, medical professionals are in high gear to prevent further damage to a developing brain. Measuring and regulating the child’s level of carbon dioxide is critical to...