Medicine
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.
June 10, 2021
Pandemic parallels
Long lines for vaccines are nothing new to Darrell Salk, whose father created the polio vaccine.
June 1, 2021
Speeding up the science
Curtis and Elizabeth Anderson lost their daughter to an uncommon form of cancer. Their philanthropy aims to expand research and bring hope to patients and their families.
May 10, 2021
Vaccine equity
Nationwide, we’re falling short on distributing vaccines to the communities that need it most.
March 11, 2021
Aiming at COVID-19
A year after it became one of the first academic labs in the U.S. to develop a COVID-19 test, the UW Medicine Virology Lab continues to innovate in response to the pandemic.
December 16, 2020
Nobel laureate’s UW ties
Harvey J. Alter, a UW resident in internal medicine from 1964-65, has received a Nobel Prize for his contributions to the discovery of the hepatitis C virus.
September 21, 2020
Racing a pandemic
Thanks to years of foresight, funding and preparation, two UW labs have been on the forefront of COVID-19 testing.
September 16, 2020
Double trouble
With flu season coming, doctors and public health officials worry that an outbreak of influenza in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic could wipe out our health care system.