11/18/2020
[Editor's note: The second bulleted item below, regarding obstetrics patients, has been revised. - 9:25 a.m. PDT Nov. 20]
Beginning today, Nov. 18, 2020, UW Medicine is restricting visits in its...
06/16/2020
Despite having the first confirmed case of coronavirus and the first major COVID-19 outbreak in the United States, Washington state implemented a response plan that kept its death rate the lowest...
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...
04/07/2020
Seattle-area philanthropists are accelerating UW Medicine’s COVID-19 response with more than $20 million in contributions towards a $50 million need for the UW Medicine Emergency Response Fund. Early...
04/01/2020
A study of 24 of the most critically ill patients with COVID-19, early on in the pandemic, indicated a high mortality rate, and a prolonged time on respirators for the patients who did survive the...
03/14/2020
Faced with unprecedented need to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, UW Medicine is postponing elective and non-urgent surgeries and procedures through March 31.
The move covers all healthcare...
10/03/2019
UW Medicine is creating the Garvey Institute for Brain Health Solutions to develop effective new treatments for brain disorders, such as depression, post-traumatic stress disorder, addiction and...
08/21/2019
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation and the University of Washington’s Alcohol & Drug Abuse Institute (ADAI) today announced the Meds-First Initiative that expands an innovative approach to...
11/14/2017
David Yamashita said his mother was his hero and his continued source of inspiration. But no one in the family knew how dark her moods were until she took her own life by taking a bottle of...