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...
09/24/2020
UW Medicine opened a LatinX Diabetes Clinic to make people whose main language is Spanish more comfortable in dealing with an urgent health crisis.
In the state of Washington, the Latino community is...
07/17/2020
Deep brain stimulation, in which electrodes implanted in a person’s brain carry electrical pulses from a pacemaker-like unit implanted in the chest, has been used for more than two decades. These...
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...
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...