06/19/2019
Almost 500,000 Americans die each year from cardiac arrest, when the heart suddenly stops beating.
People experiencing cardiac arrest will suddenly become unresponsive and either stop breathing or...
06/21/2018
[Editor's note: Dr. George Stamatoyannopoulous, a University of Washington professor of medicine who pioneered the study of blood diseases, died June 16, 2018. This remembrance was submitted by the...
10/11/2017
In 2015, UW Medicine in Seattle was first in a national study to transplant a heart that had traveled between donor and recipient in a blood-circulation machine instead of an icy cooler. Now its...
10/09/2017
Type: MediaAMP
(Downloadable video and broadcast script). Dr. Jorge Reyes describes a clinical trial of a new device for transporting donor livers between recovery and transplant, and potential upsides if the...
Inspired by one of the simplest, most-used household items ever, a UW cardiologist has created a lifesaver. In the next year, Dr. David Linker expects his invention, which detects dangerous abnormal...
Clot device-Nathan White
McKenna Princing
Dr. Nathan White is an emergency-medicine specialist at Harborview.
Nathan White
A small, plastic-and-silicon card to...
Between 2010 and 2012, Dr. Jay Rubinstein and colleagues implanted an investigational device behind an ear of four patients with Meniere’s disease. The high-tech device was intended to stave off the...
[See related: FAQs about the device trial]
Medical researchers have received approval to begin safety and performance testing of the Wearable Artificial Kidney. The federal Food and Drug...
[Oct. 3: This file has been updated.]
[See corresponding news release: Wearable Artificial Kidney safety test receives go-ahead]
What is the Wearable Artificial Kidney?
The Wearable Artificial Kidney...
If data indicated that you were exposed to harmful noise levels at work, would you do anything about it?
If a personalize phone app suggested that a walk in the park tended to improve your mood,...