01/18/2018
An advance directive, or living will, is routinely recommended for patients facing serious illness. Most health directives, however, fail to cover the common scenario of Alzheimer’s disease.
In the...
03/29/2018
Washington state has a new breast density notification law, which requires facilities which perform mammography to notify women if they have dense breast tissue. With this new law, Washington joins...
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...
10/11/2018
The newly appointed chair of the UW School of Medicine's Department of Pediatrics will also serve as the associate dean of the UW medical school and as senior vice president/chief academic officer...
03/04/2022
Almost weekly, new study findings proclaim the value of artificial intelligence in medicine, especially in radiology. “AI outdoes radiologists when it comes to identifying hip fractures, study shows...
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...