06/08/2018
MarJoe Davidson woke up one night last winter at her island home and found she was unable to get out of bed. When her spouse saw that her mouth slightly drooped and her left side was not moving, she...
06/13/2018
While at a yoga class, Aaron Barnett had a stroke. Luckily, his yoga instructor knew the signs and called 9-1-1. Within three hours, Barnett was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center's comprehensive...
07/17/2018
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Come September, when Debbie Davis returns to work as an aide at Morgan Middle School, she’ll have an incomparable “what I did...
08/06/2018
Every time a commercial pilot encounters a complication, the airline does a root-cause analysis and shares the findings immediately. The investigation focuses not on blame, but on the problem and the...
08/23/2018
“Congenital heart disease” sounds like one condition, but the term applies to upward of 20 structural abnormalities , such as malformed chambers and incomplete vessel junctions. For decades, the...
08/31/2018
As of Aug. 31, 2018, UW Medicine’s heart transplant team had received eight patient referrals from Oregon Health Sciences University (OHSU) after the suspension of its heart-transplant program.
“Our...
09/24/2018
“4 get cancer from donated organ,” blared the headline above a news story last week. It described the case of a woman in Europe who died in 2007. Her undetected breast cancer was transmitted via...
10/17/2018
A study published this week reflects that more patients than ever who need aortic-valve heart repair are doing so via a catheter instead of open surgery.
To see one of these catheter procedures is to...
01/16/2019
UW Medicine is declaring success with the Pacific Northwest’s first heart-transplant recipient to purposely acquire the hepatitis C virus (HCV) from the donor organ and then have the disease...
01/17/2019
In the past decade, U.S. adults’ health has generally worsened due to poor nutrition and inactivity. Statin therapy has become the cardiologist’s go-to strategy to reduce patients’ “bad” cholesterol...