02/16/2021
The COVID-19 infection rate among pregnant women was estimated to be 70% higher than in similarly aged adults in Washington state, according to a new study published today in American Journal of...
01/27/2021
Contracting COVID-19 while pregnant can have deadly consequences for the mother, a new study published today in American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology shows.
The study, which followed 240...
11/30/2020
Harborview Medical Center has been designated a Foster Care Center of Excellence by Coordinated Care, the managed care provider for the Apple Health Foster Care program. With this designation,...
09/09/2020
The Sports Institute at UW Medicine and Seattle Marathon Association today announced a partnership to help children access even more opportunities to move this fall. This collaboration unites two...
08/27/2020
The link between influenza and serious heart conditions just grew stronger.
A CDC study looking at more than 80,000 adult patients hospitalized with flu over eight seasons found that sudden, serious...
04/16/2020
The bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, likely uses a single gene to escape the immune system, new research from UW Medicine in Seattle suggests.
The finding may help explain how...
04/08/2020
The COVID-19 pandemic poses challenges not only for front-line caregivers but also for healthcare workers in training. Reflections of more than 300 medical students, residents, and fellows at the...
02/07/2020
How do some mammals postpone the development of their embryos to await better conditions for having offspring? A recent study at the UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine...
01/30/2020
The first genetic analysis of schizophrenia in an ancestral African population, the South African Xhosa, is reported in the Jan 31 edition of Science. An international group of scientists conducted...
12/19/2019
Atomic-level studies of the architecture of tiny sodium channel proteins, critical to generating electrical signals that start off each beat of the heart, are imparting striking details about their...