10/02/2017
[Update 8:25 a.m. Oct. 3 to clarify that dental services will be provided only to current patients of the Safe Harbor Free Clinic of Stanwood.]
Dental services and general health screenings will be...
05/21/2018
More donor organs have become available due to overdose deaths. UW Medicine’s chief of transplantation surgery Dr. Jorge Reyes talks about the organs’ health, risk of infection transmission, and the...
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...
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...
11/07/2018
Travis Nelson, clinic chief of the University of Washington’s Center for Pediatric Dentistry, has been named acting chair of the UW School of Dentistry’s Department of Pediatric Dentistry. The...
11/13/2018
It was supposed to be a routine six-month checkup after a mastectomy for breast cancer. When the nurse came back with blood work results, she looked worried. Mary Wimer’s cancer hadn't came back,...
12/10/2018
The cost of insulin the United States has motivated one in four diabetes patients to skimp on insulin dosages to stretch the drug's longevity and accommodate their budgets, according to a study...
02/22/2019
Every year across the United States, several thousand young people with a serious lifelong illness are released from pediatric care to an often confusing, sometimes uncaring world of adult care.
That...
04/08/2019
It became apparent at least 15 years ago that gastric bypass surgery, designed to help people lose weight, also puts type 2 diabetes into full remission in most cases. Patients’ glucose levels can...
08/27/2019
[Editor's note: The patient, who is starting college, asked that her last name not be published.]
When her endocrinologist first suggested bariatric surgery to deal with her obesity, Chloe was...