medicine
September 13, 2024
Novel approach
With new support of private equity, CoMotion is helping a UW professor's quest to diagnose Alzheimer's earlier.
September 2, 2023
UW alum succeeds Fauci
Jeanne Marrazzo has become the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
May 29, 2023
Lifesaving ideas
Dr. Leonard Cobb, a UW professor in the 1960s, devoted his career to lifesaving initiatives like Seattle’s Medic One paramedic program.
February 25, 2023
Reaching rural communities
The School of Dentistry gets amazing results from a program bringing health care to rural areas.
November 27, 2022
A medical emergency
The UW struggles to enroll Black medical students—a trend that is playing out across the nation.
March 4, 2022
Mentor to many
Millie L.B. Russell, who passed away in November, helped generations of BIPOC students become medical professionals.
May 10, 2021
Vaccine equity
Nationwide, we’re falling short on distributing vaccines to the communities that need it most.
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.
July 7, 2020
Protein power
Professor David Baker’s audacious approach to creating new proteins may offer new options for stopping disease—including COVID-19.
August 6, 2018
Diabetes nation
We talk about the state of diabetes with Ira Hirsch, the UW’s Diabetes Treatment and Teaching Chair.
January 9, 2018
Rural rescue
Connecting UW Medicine research to primary care clinics around the region.
December 15, 2017
The puzzle of aging
Building on decades of research and outreach, UW experts are piecing together new ways to live longer and better.
June 1, 2015
Blood stancher
An injectable polymer could keep soldiers and trauma patients from bleeding to death.
December 1, 2010
Medicine for the masses
Using business, medical and engineering smarts, UW alumni are solving medical problems in Washington and beyond.
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.
September 1, 1998
Country doctors
From the Alaskan bush to the Wyoming range, the UW trains doctors in the rural Northwest—and many decide to stay there.
December 1, 1996
Researchers work to create medical implants that bodies won’t reject
UW bioengineers hope to fool the body into accepting foreign materials, opening the door to artificial kidneys, bionic hip replacements and other medical miracles.
Pausing the pain
UW doctors turn to drugs, hypnosis and even virtual reality to ease patients’ suffering.
September 1, 1996
A stroke of genius saved countless lives with dialysis
"I literally woke up in the middle of the night with the idea of how we could save these people," Belding Scribner recalls.
Inventions made for war adapted to heal people and help the planet
Figuring out how to provide aid during the critical "golden hour" has been the impetus behind a number of projects.
June 1, 1996
The ‘G’ Man
Fate, fortitude and frustration were part of the path to a Nobel Prize for Alumnus of the Year Martin Rodbell.
December 1, 1994
Nobel laureate
Martin Rodbell was honored for research on G proteins, a key component of the communication system that regulates cellular activity.
September 1, 1993
New look at nerves
A new imaging technique that lets physicians see nerves in the human body may be the solution to that chronic back pain you've been complaining about.
The sporting life
Fitness is more than jogging, aerobics or lifting weights, say UW sports medicine experts. Here's how to reach a balance and avoid injuries.
December 1, 1992
Professors share Nobel
The discovery of a regulatory mechanism affecting almost all cells led to Nobel honors for two UW professors.
June 1, 1991
Experts debate initiative to legalize physician-assisted suicide
Initiative 119, if passed, would expand the conditions for terminating medical treatment and would legalize physician-assisted suicide for the terminally ill.
December 1, 1990
Ties to Nobel winners
The University of Washington has strong links to two 1990 Nobel Prize winners announced in October.