[Editors’ note: This is the fourth in a series of seven articles about bioethics. Q&A’s include UW experts discussing the beginning of life, end of life/futility, clinical consultation, pain care...
UW Medicine and Capital Medical Center, in Olympia, Wash., have signed an agreement selecting UW Medicine as the healthcare system of choice for complex tertiary and quaternary care for Capital...
UW Medicine announced today that it has formed an accountable care network with other healthcare organizations in Puget Sound and has entered into an agreement to offer healthcare services to certain...
UW Medicine is pleased to announce the launch of its accountable care network. To expand access to comprehensive care throughout the Puget Sound region, UW Medicine has partnered with several other...
Everyone in the world should have access to 44 surgical procedures. So says “Essential Surgery,” a reference book released today by the Disease Control Priorities Network (DCP3) in the University of...
A letter from eight academic faculty across the nation criticized the Missouri General Assembly for its efforts to create laws that would halt clinical training and research related to abortion and...
Statistics show that, with increasing age, some drivers fail to grasp when their faculties slip into a territory that makes driving more dangerous.
Doctoral student Laura Fraade-Blanar of the...
"Age is the greatest risk factor for nearly every major cause of mortality in developed nation's," UW Medicine researchers Matt Kaeberlein, Peter Rabinovitch, and George Martin, all from the UW...
The Zika virus definitely causes birth defects, according to a special report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, published April 13 in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The author...
Researchers studying the science of aging cringe at the terms 'anti-aging' and 'Fountain of Youth'. And when they are quoted in the media with tantalizing headlines like “Chasing immortality” and “...