In 2001 and out of the blue, Kristina Teel, a wife and mother, started having odd health symptoms.
“If I coughed or got up too fast, I would get severe pain in the back of my head, which would...
A new Center for Innate Immunity and Immune Disease at UW Medicine seeks to become a world leader in finding therapies to regulate the body’s defense system and fend off a wide variety of diseases....
[See related KOMO-4 News' Dec. 1 story.]
When the AIDS epidemic took the world by storm, Harborview Medical Center was among the first hospitals to open a specialty clinic for HIV/AIDS patients.
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Statistics show that, with increasing age, some drivers fail to grasp when their faculties slip into a territory that makes driving more dangerous.
Doctoral student Laura Fraade-Blanar of the...
Medical aid stations have become the norm at marathons, and many runners come expecting help.
Harrast-marathon
Stephen Brashear
Dr. Mark Harrast talks with a volunteer clinician...
Individuals with depression are more than twice as likely to have hospitalizations that might be preventable with timely outpatient medical care in the community, a new study finds. In addition,...
Graphically representing data is not a new concept. William Playfair, an 18th-century Scottish engineer and political economist, invented the line chart, bar graph and pie chart.
What's changed is...
The UW Dental Fears Center works to undo the power of patients' phobia, using various cognitive and behavioral therapy techniques
Lisa Heaton, a psychologist on staff at the clinic and an assistant...
"Age is the greatest risk factor for nearly every major cause of mortality in developed nation's," UW Medicine researchers Matt Kaeberlein, Peter Rabinovitch, and George Martin, all from the UW...
Studies of Parkinson’s disease show that physical activity benefits patients’ balance, gait and motor condition. Next month, a UW Medicine researcher will outfit 30 Parkinson’s patients with wearable...