09/01/2017
UW Medicine researchers recently lead a successful effort to create "designer" stem cells that might lead to advances in cancer and aging, they say.
In a paper published in the journal PNAS, the ...
09/05/2017
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), which distributes $30+ billion a year in federal funds to biomedical research, in late summer was awarded a $57 million grant to UW Medicine’s Institute of...
11/07/2017
A provocative study and accompanying commentary in The Lancet last week is drawing fierce rebuttals from cardiologists.
The study was the first randomized trial to compare two groups of people with a...
11/29/2017
Software designers of healthcare-assistive technologies have good reason to consult with older adults, suggests a study published today in the journal Assistive Technology.
Researchers explored...
02/06/2018
If you were diagnosed with glioblastoma — a brain cancer that, with conventional chemotherapy and radiation treatment, is usually fatal within 12 to 15 months — would you try a novel therapy that...
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...
05/14/2018
The 2018 Shaw Prize honors King's pioneering work in breast cancer genetics.
At the UW School of Medicine, King is a professor of genome sciences and is an American Cancer Society Professor in the...
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...
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...