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Removing race adjustment from common prenatal test
02/03/2023
Type: YouTube
Dr. Shani Delaney, an associate professor of OB-GYN and maternal fetal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is a senior author of a study that found that results of a prenatal...
Doctor examining pregnant woman's stomach.

Study: COVID impairs placenta's immune defense
09/19/2022
Type: YouTube
A new study published today in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology shows a mother-to-be's COVID-19 infection can impair her placena's immune response, leaving it vulnerable to other...
Children and adolescents have experienced higher rates of sleep disturbances as a group than have healthcare workers and the general population, according to new meta-analysis from throughout the COVID-19 pandemic.

Another pandemic result: Our sleep is worse
03/16/2022
Type: YouTube
More than 3 in 10 people suffered disrupted or disturbed sleep at some point during the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to research on the sleep habits of 493,000 people across 49...
Front-line clinicians who've developed symptoms of depression and anxiety amid the COVID-19 pandemic will be given psilocybin and psychotherapy during an upcoming UW School of Medicine study.

Psychotherapy with psilocybin tested against depression
12/12/2021
Type: YouTube
A clinical trial is underway to test whether psilocybin-assisted psychotherapy can help front-line clinicians who have developed depression and anxiety amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Psilocybin is a...
Patients in need of cataract surgery also see their risk for developing dementia drop by 30% after undergoing the operation, according to new research published today in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Dementia risk drops for cataract surgery patients
12/06/2021
Type: YouTube
Patients in need of cataract surgery also see their risk for developing dementia drop by 30% after undergoing the operation, according to new research published today in JAMA Internal Medicine. “We...
Top health leaders and now a large-scale health study conducted by UW Medicine doctors show that the COVID-19 vaccine is safe for pregnant women.

Study: 17,000 lactating, pregnant women show vaccine is safe
08/17/2021
Type: YouTube
Less than one in four pregnant women in the U.S. are vaccinated against COVID-19, according to recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A new UW Medicine study hopes to quell...
Woman getting an ultrasound

Pregnant patients at higher risk of dying from COVID-19
01/27/2021
Type: YouTube
The rate of pregnant patients who die from COVID-19 infection is 13 times higher than that of those in the same age group. Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the...
Woman with hands around her stomach

Pre-pregnancy health affects COVID-19 infection severity
05/15/2020
Type: YouTube
A study published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology found that COVID-19 infections severely affect pregnant women with existing health challenges. Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf,...
Kristina Adams Waldorf working in the lab

Does COVID-19 affect pregnancies?

03/24/2020
Type: YouTube
Much is still unknown about the virus that causes COVID-19. Dr. Kristina Adams Waldorf, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at University of Washington School of Medicine, shifted her lab's focus...
Doctors performing TAVR

Tailoring aortic valve treatments to the patient
03/26/2019
Type: YouTube
Open surgery has long been the convention for treating aortic stenosis, a potentially lethal condition in which a failing aortic valve reduces blood flow from the heart. But TAVR, or transcatheter...

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