06/13/2017
High levels of air pollution over time appear to impede a good night’s sleep, according to study findings presented recently.
“These findings suggest that commonly experienced
levels of air...
09/26/2017
Beginning four years ago, 15 women with incurable (metastatic triple-negative) breast cancer were enrolled in a unique clinical trial. It explored one concept of “precision medicine” – the suggestion...
11/14/2017
Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) are medicines commonly prescribed to treat acid-related digestive problems, including gastroesophageal reflux disease. Up to one in five older adults said they used a...
01/31/2018
Here’s the good news. Alzheimer’s is a slow-growing disease that can lay latent for 15 years before developing into dementia and research suggests there are ways to slow the disease's progression. ...
02/21/2018
Epidemiology has played a crucial role over the decades in understanding Alzheimer’s disease and other common causes of dementia, such as vascular disease and Lewy body disease. Yet more questions...
03/08/2018
The old bromide “you are what you eat,” is true, but not quite the way nutritionists first thought.
A new study by Stanford University published in JAMA has shown that it’s the quality of what you...
05/08/2018
You’d think you’d know if your heart were quivering instead beating normally, but many people who have atrial fibrillation – a serious form of irregular heartbeat or palpitations – don’t feel...
05/29/2018
Ed Ward, a retiree living in Twisp, Washington, is the Pacific Northwest’s first recipient of a collar-like device implanted in the heart to improve its pumping efficiency. He was at UW Medical...
06/01/2018
Soundbites video and audio of Dr. Sasha Stanton talking about breast cancer can be downloaded here.
Soundbites video and audio of Dr. Petros Grivas talking about bladder cancer can be downloaded here...
06/20/2018
UW Medicine’s radiology team last month created a novel imaging agent and, in an expansive team effort, performed a first-in-human PET/CT imaging study to observe how a statin drug distributes and...