02/07/2018
The Seattle Times chronicles the chain of events in two cases in which trauma patients' lives were saved with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation machines.
Harborview Medical Center employs the...
03/29/2018
Washington state has a new breast density notification law, which requires facilities which perform mammography to notify women if they have dense breast tissue. With this new law, Washington joins...
04/20/2018
Separate collisions had landed the boy in two Seattle-area emergency departments. Most of his needs were met without fail, but there were some delays.
If you end up needing emergency care, how do...
07/20/2018
Anyone walking through the doors of Harborview Medical Center will come across a story. Bear attacks, skateboard accidents, car crashes, bike collisions, shootings and burns are among the...
08/15/2018
Alyssa Ledbetter and her family call Dr. Alisha Brown a guardian angel. Brown was at a park on Mercer Island, near Seattle, when Ledbetter complained to her mom of a sudden, very bad headache, and...
09/24/2018
UW Medicine and Seattle Children’s will be part of the expansion of the National Institutes of Health Undiagnosed Diseases Network, the NIH announced today, Sept 24. The two Seattle institutions...
10/17/2018
Many women diagnosed with early-stage breast cancer have a tumor that is too small to see or feel. A UW Medicine patient describes her experience with a new technology; it involves having a...
10/17/2018
Dave Harris will compete this week in an Ironman Triathlon, doing something most thought was impossible. In December 2016, the U.S. Navy commander was involved in a freak accident in which an...
02/07/2019
Is it true that vaccinations increase antibodies and provide herd immunity?
Vaccinations work by training the body’s immune system and increasing protective antibodies. Vaccines teach the immune...
06/06/2019
Type: YouTube
Four climbers were rescued this week from Mount Rainier, and their experience illustrates one risk of climbing in spring and summer. They became stranded after encountering high winds on their trek,...