Patient Dave Skelton received a donor kidney this week, transplanted by surgeon Stephen Rayhill. UW Medicine media representative Elizabeth Hunter live-tweeted updates before, during and after the...
Preclinical studies show that gene therapy can improve muscle strength in small- and large-animal models of a fatal congenital childhood disease know as X-linked myotubular myopathy.
Daniela Witten, assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington School of Public Health, has been named to Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list for the third year in a row. The Forbes list...
Kevin Haggerty graduated from high school in 1977 – among the foggiest, Cheech-and-Chongiest years ever in terms of U.S. teens smoking marijuana, government data says. For more than 25 years, he has...
WWAMI’s effort is vital because Alaska needs more physicians, particularly those that specialize in primary care and psychiatry.
New imaging technology from UW engineers lets scientists see what happens within the smallest blood vessels after an injection of filler material commonly used in facelifts.
“When parents come in with their child to see a pediatrician or a family doctor, they’ve got two questions when their child has a cough or a cold or that kind of illness. Number one is, how long is...
A substantial fraction of the Neanderthal genome persists in modern human populations. A new approach applied to analyzing whole-genome sequences data from 665 people from Europe and East Asia shows...
A new family medical residency training program in Coeur d’Alene is one step to try to help address Idaho's anticipated shortage of physicians.
A genetic study of adult twins and a community-based study of adolescents both report novel links between sleep duration and depression. The studies were published Feb. 1 issue in the journal Sleep,...