Medicine
May 30, 2024
Hero in crisis
Bobbi Campbell, who attended the UW in the 1970s, put a face to the AIDS epidemic.
February 23, 2024
Alzheimer’s ‘milestone’
Doctors describe a new drug as a first step toward revolutionizing the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
November 26, 2023
Hometown health care
Raised on a dairy farm, Wyatt Bowles dreamed of becoming a hometown doctor. Thanks to scholarship support at the UW, that dream can come true.
Delivering hope
A UW program works to improve maternal health outcomes for Black women and other underserved community members.
November 25, 2023
Probing a mystery
A UW center takes an innovative approach to solving one of medicine’s vexing problems: when organ transplants mysteriously lead to cancer.
September 2, 2023
Passion for public health
Throughout his career, George Counts has addressed health and health-care inequities.
September 1, 2023
Community classroom
UW Bothell public health students gained a new understanding of rural health care in the developing world.
May 28, 2023
A gleaming partnership
The UW School of Dentistry partnered with Shoreline Community College to increase the number of dental hygienists.
February 25, 2023
Comeback trail
One athlete journeys from injury to recovery with the help of sports medicine experts at the UW.
Opioid game-changer
Vaccines show promise for treating addiction to oxycodone, heroin and other addictive substances.
Reaching rural communities
The School of Dentistry gets amazing results from a program bringing health care to rural areas.
November 27, 2022
Tumor trap
Two interventional cardiologists at the UW Heart Institute were the first to use a basket-shaped, catheter-delivered tool to remove a benign tumor from a heart.
A medical emergency
The UW struggles to enroll Black medical students—a trend that is playing out across the nation.
October 28, 2022
Service on his terms
Distinguished Alumni Veteran Award recipient Michael Kilmer is now a leader in Veterans Affairs 20 years after being forced out of the Coast Guard.
September 20, 2022
Making history
History professor Margaret O'Mara explains how prior generations handled a pandemic and what we can learn from their mistakes.
August 29, 2022
Doctors in the house
A class of 60 UW School of Medicine students now occupy a state-of-the-art building in Spokane.
December 4, 2021
Why get a booster?
Marion Pepper of the School of Medicine helps us better understand the latest COVID-19 shot.
September 4, 2021
Hope and healing
A researcher combats cancer with the help of UW doctors and tools developed by his colleagues.
Crisis state
Washington has a shortage of mental-health workers and high demand for treatment. The UW is at the center of efforts to turn the tide.
Healthy collaboration
The UW’s six health sciences schools share a mission to improve care and soon will share a new building.