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Taste of Main: Bellevue event to help children on the Eastside this Saturday

Taste of Main: Bellevue event to help children on the Eastside this Saturday

Benefits Children’s Response Center, which helps children and teens who have experienced sexual assault or other traumatic events.

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Online gamers help UW scientists tackle complex protein problems

Online gamers help UW scientists tackle complex protein problems

Program was inspired in part by the online multi-player game World of Warcraft.

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University of Washington Medical Center

UW Medical Center 12th top-ranked U.S. hospital, according to U.S. News & World Report

U.S. News & World Report lists UW Medical Center as one of the best U.S. hospitals. UW ranked 12th overall this year, placing it on the magazine’s 14-hospital “Honor Roll”.

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Top-ranked UW ranks high in fulfilling its ‘social mission’ too, study finds

Top-ranked UW ranks high in fulfilling its ‘social mission’ too, study finds

University of Washington ranked 6th in the U.S. News & World Report survey but still managed to rank in the top 20 for producing primary care doctors.

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U.S. adult mortality rates slip to 49th for women, 45th for men

U.S. adult mortality rates slip to 49th for women, 45th for men

Mortality of rates for adult Americans are now worse than they are in all of Western Europe and even such low-income countries as Chile, Tunisia and Albania.

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Holbein's Dance with Death, The Soldier

War: Bad for Health

Health and science blogger Tom Paulson reports from the UW’s War and Global Health conference

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What should we teach the nurse of the future?

What should we teach the nurse of the future?

Dean of the UW School of Nursing blogs on the Future of Nursing

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UW hosts Mini-Medical School

UW hosts Mini-Medical School

Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis so register online now.

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$13.5 million in loan repayments for nurses willing to work in facilities facing shortages or to teach

$13.5 million in loan repayments for nurses willing to work in facilities facing shortages or to teach

The U.S. government is making available $8.1 million for education loan repayment for nurses willing to work for two years at facilities that face a critical nurse shortages.
The funds will be offered on a competitive basis to 100 registered nurses.
In Washington state the program will offer five positions: four at the University of Washington Medical [...]

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Five Lessons From Seattle On Adopting Electronic Medical Records

By Julie Appleby
SEATTLE — Atop a hill here, three of Washington state’s pre-eminent hospital systems sit within blocks of each other, equipped with state-of-the-art electronic medical record systems that track test results, send warnings about dangerous drug interactions and provide medical histories.
But a patient crossing the street from one hospital to another would be wise [...]

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Health stories in the news–Aug. 4th

Lack of patients for clinical trials slows cancer research
New York Times reporter Gina Kolata leads her story about how the lack of patients willing to participate in studies is hobbling cancer research with a quote from Dr. Scott Ramsey of Seattle’s Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.
Dr. Ramsay, a cancer researcher and health economist at the Seattle [...]

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Health in the news – July 13

Money and medicine
KUOW looks at the salaries of Seattle’s top docs and charity care Washington non-profit hospitals give
John Ryan, a reporter for Seattle’s Public Radio affiliate KUOW, looked at how much Seattle-area hospitals, most of which enjoy the tax benefits of non-profit status, pay their top officials and how much charity care they provide.
Salaries, Ryan [...]

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Food can cost twice as much at some Seattle supermarket chains–UW nutrition researchers find

Food can cost twice as much at some Seattle supermarket chains–UW nutrition researchers find

It will cost you roughly twice as much to buy a standard “market basket” of food from PCC in Kirkland than it would if you had shopped at Fred Meyer, a study by University of Washington researchers has found.
Market Basket Price in Dollars by Chain
The purpose of the study was to see if there were [...]

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New Face of the Uninsured: Middle-Class Americans

By Austin Jenkins, NPR News
This story comes from our partner National Public Radio

Deborah Llavanes is one of a growing number of middle-income Americans who, because of the recession, have lost their jobs and their health coverage. For the first time in her life, Llavanes is turning to a community health clinic for her medical needs.
At [...]

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Health stories in the news – July 7th

New York Times profiles Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative
Opponents to a public health insurance plan are proposing private-sector insurance cooperatives as an alternative, and they are pointing to Seattle’s Group Health Cooperative as an example of what such cooperatives can accomplish, writes New York Times reporter Kevin Sack in today’s issue of the paper.
Group Health has [...]

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iCPR: Download cardio-pulmonary resuscitation instructions to your Apple or Google smart phones

King County’s Emergency Medical Services has created one-minute training videos that can be downloaded to your Apple iPod Touch phone or Google phone on how to provide cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) and what to do if someone is choking .
 
“If people know CPR and choke aid procedures, they use them in an emergency.  We developed a phone application [...]

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UWTV now on YouTube

The University of Washington’s video channel UWTV is now on YouTube. 
UWTV presents a wide variety of programs covering science, medicine and the humanities.
UWTV is already broadcast on cable and online at www.uwtv.org, but the new YouTube channel will make it easier for users to search for programs and to view with mobile devices, such as [...]

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Health stories in the news

Health stories in the news

UW graduate nursing students protest tuition rise
Students enrolled in the University of Washington’s doctoral program for family nurse practitioners are protesting administrative changes that will boost their tuition 43 percent, Nick Perry reports in today’s Seattle Times.
The changes also mean some students who work at UW programs will lose tuition subsidies they have been receiving [...]

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Health stories in the news

Staying sharp as you age
Benedict Carey writes in the New York Times about the work of researchers who are trying to figure out why some people are able to stay mentally sharp well into their 90s.
Carey writes:
“The evidence suggests that people who spend long stretches of their days, three hours and more, engrossed in some [...]

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International experts meet in Seattle to tackle stillbirth and deaths due to prematurity

International experts meet in Seattle to tackle stillbirth and deaths due to prematurity

Stillbirth and prematurity are responsible for more deaths of children under age 5 than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.

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Health stories in the news

Health stories in the news

Mexico battles swine flu stigma
Mark Lacey and Andrew Jacobs write in the New York Times that Mexico feels it is being treated unfairly since it first reported it had a large outbreak of influenza A (H1N1) or “swine flu”. Mexican products have been banned by some countries, air routes shutdown, and travelers from Mexico quarantined.
“Mexico’s [...]

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Experts to give update on swine flu at UW today

Experts to give update on swine flu at UW today

A panel of local and international experts will provide an update on the influenza A/H1N1 (“swine flu”) outbreak this afternoon at the UW Medical Center.

The panel will include:

Dr. David Fleming, director of public health for Seattle and King County;
Kathleen Neuzil, director of PATH’s Influenza Vaccine Project
Marie Kimball, UW professor of epidemiology and director of Asia Pacific [...]

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Adolescents using insulin pumps achieve better blood sugar levels, but diabetes control still poor

Adolescents using insulin pumps achieve better blood sugar levels, but diabetes control still poor

Adolescents with type 1 diabetes who use insulin pumps achieve better blood-sugar levels than do adolescents who use other methods, according to a new study.
Those using insulin pumps also required fewer hospitalizations and emergency room visits, the study found.
But even with the pump many children and teens still fail to achieve good blood-sugar control, the [...]

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UW School of Medicine ranked among top 10 medical schools by U.S. News & World Report

The University of Washington School of Medicine has been ranked 6th in the nation by U.S. News & World Report.
In the speciality categories, UW ranked:

1st in primary care, family medicine, and rural medicine
5th in women’s health
6th in pediatric and geriatric medicine
8th in internal medicine.

To learn more:

Go to the U.S. News and World Report medical school rankings.

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Better numbers needed to cut heart attack deaths

 If you have a cardiac arrest whether you live or die depends largely on where you live.
If you live in Seattle, for example, you have about a 50/50 chance of surviving.
But if you live in Dallas, Texas, your chances are 1 in 10. In New York City, they’re 1 in 20.
And if you live in Detroit, [...]

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Simple checklist markedly reduces surgical deaths-updated video

Simple checklist markedly reduces surgical deaths-updated video

Using a simple checklist to make sure operating teams completed important safety tasks before, during and after operating, reduced surgical deaths and serious post-operative complications by roughly one third, according to a study done in eight hospitals around the world, including the University of Washington in Seattle.
Updated Video
 
 The study was conducted by the Safe Surgery [...]

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UW to host free six-part “Mini-Medical School” lecture series

UW to host free six-part “Mini-Medical School” lecture series

The first lecture of the University of Washington School of Medicine’s six-part “Mini-Medical School” series will be held February 3rd. 
The weekly programs are scheduled for 7 p.m., Tuesday evenings, from February 3 until March 10, 2009, in Hogness Auditorium, Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center, University of Washington, 1959 N.E. Pacific Street, Seattle. 
The series will cover such subjects as workplace hazards, [...]

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Public forum on growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities

The “Ashley” case will be discussed in an open forum sponsored by Seattle Children’s Treuman Katz Center for Pediatric Bioethics on Friday, Jan. 23.
In 2006, doctors from Seattle Children’s reported in the journal Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine the case of a six-year old girl with profound disabilities whose parents asked doctors to prescribe [...]

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AIDS expert to speak at UW for World AIDS Day

[ December 1, 2008; 5:30 pm; ]  

 

Dr. Catherine Wilfert developed the idea that it was possible to prevent the AIDS virus from spreading from an infected mother to her uninfected newborn by giving an anti-HIV drug to the mother just before and to the child right after delivery.

The approach can cut mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 80%  and is credited with [...]

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AIDS pioneer to speak at UW Monday, Dec. 1

AIDS pioneer to speak at UW Monday, Dec. 1

Dr. Catherine Wilfert developed the idea that it was possible to prevent the AIDS virus from spreading from an infected mother to her uninfected newborn by giving an anti-HIV drug to the mother just before and to the child right after delivery.
The approach can cut mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 80%  and is credited with [...]

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