09/23/2022
On Aug. 11, LifeCenter Northwest, the Organ Procurement Organization for Washington, and UW Medicine’s heart transplant team together facilitated the Pacific Northwest’s first donation-after-...
09/13/2022
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The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recommends all pregnant and recently pregnant people who are vaccinated against COVID-19 to now receive the updated booster dose, as...
01/23/2023
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Dr. Michael Gravett, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Washington School of Medicine, encourages women who are pregnant or planning to become pregnant to also consider...
02/03/2023
A race-based adjustment to test-result values from a common prenatal screening should be discontinued, according to a study published this week in Obstetrics and Gynecology. The adjustment has...
03/21/2023
Among six Pacific Northwest states, only Washington and Oregon have laws mandating that radiologists notify female patients whose mammograms indicate dense breast tissue, a risk factor for cancer...
03/23/2023
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An updated mandate from the Food and Drug Administration compels U.S. mammography centers to provide breast-density information to all patients. Dr. Christoph Lee, a professor of radiology at the...
05/12/2023
Cardiologists at the UW Medicine Heart Institute recently performed a first-in-the-world procedure, detaching and retrieving a clip device from a patient’s mitral valve and placing a replacement...
07/12/2023
Doctors in Seattle are reporting a history-making case in which a patient received two donor organs, a liver and a heart, to prevent the extremely high likelihood that her body would reject a donor...
09/21/2023
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Infectious disease specialist Dr. Helen Chu anticipates the upcoming viral season will include a jump in illnesses caused by respiratory syncytial virus (RSV), the flu, and COVID-19.
“We expect that...