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06/08/2017
A collaboration involving UW Medicine researchers reached a major milestone toward helping investigators create drug therapies and vaccines for some of the world’s major infectious diseases.
The...
05/24/2017
UW Medicine’s Regional Heart Center is enrolling patients in a clinical trial that may be the final threshold to a new standard of care for aortic-valve replacement.
It is the only trial site in...
05/10/2017
The synthetic opioid fentanyl and other fentanyl-like drugs were involved in the deaths of at least 70 people in Washington in 2016, according to a joint investigation of state agencies. Fentanyl...
05/18/2017
Insect-transmitted viruses, like Powassan and West Nile, which can attack the brain in some cases, are becoming a growing public health concern. Medical scientists are trying to understand how brain...
06/23/2017
Artemisinin combination therapies (ACTs), medications widely used against malaria, are safe to administer to women in their first trimester of pregnancy, according to research published today. ACTs...
05/18/2017
Research has identified a new way that viruses keep infected cells alive – so the viruses can use the cells to reproduce. The finding suggests it may be possible to target this process to treat viral...
06/23/2017
Research results reported this week in the journal Science overturn long-held views on a basic messaging system within living cells.
The findings suggest new approaches to designing precisely...
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,...