heart disease
November 30, 2018
3 hearts, 1 full life
An adventurous alum stricken with heart disease as a young man is thriving after undergoing two heart transplants.
September 1, 2006
50 years for the heart
Fifty years ago, the UW perfected its own heart-lung machine and did the first open-heart bypass surgery in the West. Now advances are coming so quickly that they could put future cardiac surgeons out of business.
June 1, 2005
Antibiotics won't do it
Could bacteria also be a culprit in heart disease? In April the UW released the first results of a study — and the verdict so far for C. pneumoniae is not guilty.
September 1, 1999
For the heart
UW Professor Thomas Grayston is principal investigator of an $11 million grant to see if killing a form of bacteria reduces heart attacks.