Medicine

September 12, 2024

Care for all

UW Medicine opens a new center for behavioral health care and for training the next generation of mental health professionals.


June 7, 2024

Sketches: Dana Robertson-Halter

Dana Robertson-Halter tells us about her seal encounter last summer near Decatur Island.


May 30, 2024

A dose of advice

A pediatrician weighs in on the recent spike in melatonin use for kids who can't sleep.


Hero in crisis

Bobbi Campbell, who attended the UW in the 1970s, put a face to the AIDS epidemic.


February 23, 2024

A medical bag with fluid is labeled "lecanemab" with patient information

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.


A woman wearing a surgical mask and stethoscope smiles at a laughing patient.

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.


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