02/26/2021
A subset of patient coronavirus test samples, collected since November in six U.S. states, showed an increasing number of amino acid mutations in a region that helps the virus bind to host cells. ...
02/19/2021
Women of minority races and ethnicities and with less education and income have had relatively lower access to 3D mammography, a technology that can improve breast cancer detection and decrease false...
02/01/2021
The recent recognition of new SARS-CoV-2, variants, first detected in South Africa (B.1.135, 501Y.V2), Brazil (P1) and the UK (B.1.1.7) has become an urgent global concern. UWARN (United World...
11/02/2020
UW Medicine announced today, Nov. 2, 2020, that Paul Hayes, RN, CEO of Harborview Medical Center, will retire from his position on Dec. 4.
Sommer Kleweno-Walley, senior associate administrator at...
10/28/2020
A major scientific effort is underway to characterize the proteins in the cerebrospinal fluid to improve diagnostics and clinical monitoring assays, and discover potential therapies, for Alzheimer’s...
08/26/2020
A Phase 1 patient trial of the novel, oral therapy candidate, alpha-TEA, for advanced HER2 positive breast cancer is now underway. Veana Therpeutics, Inc., and UW Medicine will collaborate on the...
08/17/2020
A UW Medicine researcher, along with colleagues from Italy, Spain and Chile, have defined a new pediatric sleep disorder, which once diagnosed and treated, may help children and their parents get a...
08/04/2020
A team of researchers has developed a new vaccine design strategy that could confer improved immunity against certain viruses, including those that cause AIDS, the flu, and COVID-19. Using this...
07/28/2020
A new comparison of two breast-screening technologies has found that, for most women, digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT, also called 3D mammography) is superior to digital mammography for cancer...
07/20/2020
A replicating RNA vaccine, formulated with a lipid-based nanoparticle emulsion that goes by the acronym LION, produces antibodies against the COVID-19 coronavirus in mice and primates with a single...