Benefits Children’s Response Center, which helps children and teens who have experienced sexual assault or other traumatic events.
Program was inspired in part by the online multi-player game World of Warcraft.
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”.
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.
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.
Health and science blogger Tom Paulson reports from the UW’s War and Global Health conference
Dean of the UW School of Nursing blogs on the Future of Nursing
Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis so register online now.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Stillbirth and prematurity are responsible for more deaths of children under age 5 than AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria combined.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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, [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
Invisible Families: The homeless you don't see
They squeeze in with relatives, couch surf with friends or camp out in cars. More families are quietly becoming homeless, driven to the edge by a lack of jobs and affordable housing. The Seattle Times and its local news partners tackle the topic together. Project home
E-Health Records: Seattle is ahead of the curve
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