05/22/2017
Within months, clinical trials of a gene therapy will begin with a small group of children affected with a deadly muscle-wasting disease.
Dr. Martin Childers, a UW Medicine researcher and physician,...
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...
University of Washington entrepreneurs and students display ideas they're exploring. Scientific pursuits involve strengthening damaged heart muscle, saving lives in the emergency room, and creating a...
They began as physicians’ assistants, so to speak – searchable, cross-referenced databases of drugs, drug interactions and prices, pill identifiers, dose information and the like.
Increasingly,...
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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,...
Drawing inspiration from veterinary medicine, researchers at the University of Washington have helped developed a new prospective approach to detect tuberculosis (TB) – easy-to-obtain oral swab...
A collaboration of University of Washington specialists in trauma medicine and bioengineering has led to a synthetic substance that might help prevent some severely injured people from bleeding to...