10/25/2017
Two of his comrades died instantly. Hill was rescued and has wanted to pay back by giving life. Twelve years later, he paid that debt with a piece of his liver. He became a living liver transplant...
11/28/2017
Surgeons at UW Medicine in Seattle have performed the first liver transplant in the Pacific Northwest involving a warm blood-perfusion device to transport the organ between donor and recipient.
Paul...
02/14/2018
Casey Schorr didn't always have epilepsy. His seizures started when he was 12.
"It kept getting worse and worse, even on the medications, which is why they started doubling them and tripling them,"...
03/05/2018
About two-thirds of people with epilepsy are able to stop seizures with medications. But another third, like Casey Schorr, don’t respond well.
Andrew Ko, head of the UW Medicine Functional and...
04/30/2018
She took one hit of heroin and “ended up dead for a few seconds,” recounted UW Medicine psychiatrist Richard Ries, describing a patient. Years later, though, the woman got married and returned to...
06/06/2018
You've probably heard about the new recommendations from the American Cancer Society (ACA) that came out last week. ACA now says most people should get screened for colon and rectal cancer starting...
06/28/2018
Reader's Digest reports that gaming disorder has to be evident for at least 12 months. It can’t just be a few hours or few days. Since it’s a clinical condition, the clinical diagnosis of a gaming...
08/09/2018
A 71-year-old man experienced seizures more and more frequently until they were occurring several times an hour. That's when he decided to drive himself from western Washington to the Seattle...
10/09/2018
Gov. Jay Inslee signed a directive that would coordinate state and local governments’ efforts to try to eradicate hepatitis C by 2030. In late September, the Washington state governor visited the...