02/26/2021
UW Medicine today achieved two milestones in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic:
A worker administered the healthcare system’s 100,000th dose of COVID-19 vaccine; the recipient was Wanda Herndon...
02/12/2021
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New dietary guidelines state that children under age 2 should consume no food that has added sugars. Eliza Lagerquist, dietitian at UW Medical Center – Montlake's neonatal intensive care unit, says...
12/16/2020
More and more evidence is coming out that people with COVID-19 are suffering from cognitive effects, such as brain fog and fatigue.
And researchers are discovering why. The SARS-CoV-2 virus, like...
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,...
11/12/2020
Bodily injuries remain the leading cause of death and suffering among U.S. children and teens. Each day, 20 children die from preventable injuries—more than all diseases combined. In parallel, the...
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...
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...
10/14/2020
UW Medicine scientists are driving a bold, multi-partner experiment to stimulate the repair and regeneration of human kidney cells. A favorable outcome could jump-start a new therapy model for 850...
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...
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...