01/31/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Alzheimer’s is a slow-progressing disease that can be latent for 15 years before developing into cognitive impairment and dementia. And evidence suggests that healthy behaviors can delay the...
01/31/2018
Type: MediaAMP
One in eight women in the United States is diagnosed with breast cancer. For women who survive, there’s always concern about the cancer coming back. Scientists at UW Medicine in Seattle are...
02/05/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Current criteria using head size to diagnose Zika-related brain injury fail to capture more subtle brain damage that can lead to significant learning problems and mental health disorders later in...
02/06/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Some 45 million Americans go on a diet each year. Most don't realize that, in doing so, they are changing their microbiomes.
“Every time you diet, it’s causing fluctuations in the compositions of...
02/08/2018
Type: MediaAMP
The Seattle Times recently chronicled lifesaving measures provided to two patients at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. The patients likely would have died, doctors say, without the use of an ...
02/09/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Hopefully, as Valentine’s Day nears, you aren't feeling brokenhearted. Perhaps surprisingly, though, broken heart syndrome is an actual medical condition.
It's a form of cardiomyopathy, or a...
02/13/2018
Type: MediaAMP
A bill in Washington's Legislature would require private stem-cell clinics to post signage warning prospective clients that the therapy offered therein lacks scientific evidence and FDA approval.
The...
02/14/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Casey Schorr was desperate to take back control of his life after epilepsy resulted in debilitating seizures. Schorr, his mom and Dr. Andrew Ko discuss the procedure to reduce his seizures in this ...
02/16/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Frisco, Texas, resident Steve Murphy, 66, was diagnosed last September with Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare skin cancer he’d never heard of. His grim prognosis: 50 percent chance of surviving 90 days...
02/26/2018
Type: MediaAMP
Heather Tick, a professor of anesthesiology and pain medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is the lead author of a consortium pain task force white paper calling for a reform...