A national expert on child development will speak at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD) on Thursday, Feb.
Author: Laurie McHale
To inaugurate the new Fragile X Research Center at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD), two internationally known experts on fragile X syndrome will visit the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø next week to give lectures and hold a series of meetings with fragile X researchers and clinicians.
To inaugurate the new Fragile X Research Center at the Center on Human Development and Disability (CHDD), two internationally known experts on fragile X syndrome will visit the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø next week to give lectures and hold a series of meetings with fragile X researchers and clinicians.
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The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to establish a National Center on Accessible Information Technology in Education, to be known as AccessIT. The five-year renewable grant, awarded on a competitive basis, comes from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR).
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Around the theme of “Step into the Future,” the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Sciences Open House 2000 will highlight the latest advances in medical research, patient care and teaching, as well as offer information on exciting careers in health care.
Dr. Mary-Claire King, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø professor of medicine and genetics, will give the third and last in this year’s series of free public lectures sponsored by the newly created ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Science Forum. Her lecture, “Genomic Views of Human History,” will be held at 7:30 pm. Tuesday, March 14, in Kane Hall room 130 on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus.
“Ears, Hearing and Beyond” is the subject of a free public conference on hearing loss, to be held from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 11, in the HUB Auditorium on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus.
Patients filling a prescription usually can rely on their pharmacist to warn of possible negative side effects caused by interactions with other prescriptions and over-the-counter medications that they may be taking. But two top national experts on drug interactions from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Pharmacy believe the health-care provider actually writing the prescription should be the first line of defense against such interactions.
Santos and Orlando Villafuerte-Mora, twins born at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center in two different centuries, are scheduled to be transferred Friday by ambulance to Central Washington Hospital in Wenatchee.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Physicians Neighborhood Clinics are celebrating a coup. The network of neighborhood clinics received an exceptional score of 100 percent in an accreditation survey performed by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).
According to a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø study published in the January 2000 issue of Virology, genes involved in T-cell signaling, protein trafficking and transcriptional regulation were among the genes that displayed functional changes within three days of exposure to the HIV virus.
An annual ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. will take place from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 13, in the lobby of the Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center, 1959 N.E. Pacific, Seattle.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Academic Medical Center has signed a participation agreement with First Choice Health Network, Inc., which promises to significantly improve access to health care for thousands of Washington residents.
By last year at this time, young Nicole Ehli of Puyallup had spent two long months at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center, hospitalized as she waited for a donor heart. Nicole’s wait ended last Christmas Eve, when a donor heart became available
Newly published research led by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø scientists could one day lead to a laboratory test to predict when people infected with human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) are likely to progress to symptomatic AIDS.
A pregnant woman maintained on mechanical life support for seven weeks after being declared brain-dead has given birth to a baby boy at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center in Seattle.
Discovery provides key for development of improved blood-clotting drugs for hemophiliacs and better blood-thinning medications for those at risk of stroke and heart attack
This Thanksgiving will be the third year in a row that Sandi Claudell has provided a turkey dinner with all the trimmings for families of patients hospitalized in ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center’s Critical Care Unit.
A new implantable hearing aid system will undergo clinical trials at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Virginia Merrill Bloedel Hearing Research Center, one of five sites selected to study its effectiveness
A ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø program that has proven highly effective in intervening with expectant and new mothers who abuse alcohol and drugs is expanding into Spokane, Grant and Yakima counties.
“Access in the Millenium: Medical Applications of New Technologies” is the theme of a forum to be held from 9 a.m. to noon on Monday, Oct. 25, in the Seattle Center’s Conference Center Room H.
Several ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members will be among the speakers when Seattle hosts the 124th annual meeting of the American Neurological Association Oct. 10-13. The meeting will take place at the Seattle Westin.
A clinical trial performed by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers, reported in the Sept. 16 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that an intravenous anti-arrhythmia medication, amiodarone, can save the lives of many patients who do not respond to defibrillation.
To celebrate the formal opening of the de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing will host a lecture and book-signing by the authors of Living to 100: Lessons in Living to Your Maximum Potential at Any Age.
Alex Beaudreault of Fairbanks is the recipient of the 500th liver transplant performed at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center.
Tennis pros Michael Chang and Jan-Michael Gambill will play an exhibition match at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Nordstrom Tennis Center, beginning at 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 17.
Jim Lambright, former football coach at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, and his wife Lynne have donated $100,000 to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, through the Jim Lambright Medical Research Foundation.
Seattle-area transplant experts, led by surgeons at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center, are about to launch a clinical research trial in human islet transplantation.
A two-and-a-half-year-old boy from Kingston, Wash., became the region’s first recipient of a living-related split-liver transplant on Wednesday, July 21 in a coordinated surgery performed by transplant teams from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center.
Students at all grade levels will be the beneficiaries of a $500,000 grant to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute.
A team of transplant surgeons at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center has performed what they believe is a first in the annals of transplant surgery: Husband and wife themselves, they retrieved a donor kidney from a wife and transplanted it into her ailing husband.
Two Eastside sisters now have more in common than they ever imagined they’d have: they’re sharing one set of kidneys. Dr. Lucy Wrenshall, a transplant surgeon at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center, performed the surgery.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center is ranked among the top hospitals in the country in a number of specialties, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 1999 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” available on newsstands July 12.
A very special series of paintings and other artworks by Anchorage artist Gerry Conaway is on display at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center.
A free public forum on “Sex and Aging: The New Facts of Life” will be held from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 27, at the Edmond Meany Hotel, 4507 Brooklyn in Seattle’s University District.
A series of free public lectures on the nervous system, learning disabilities and mental health issues will be given in July by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members and other experts.
Stimulating the production of growth hormone in healthy older men and women can return hormone levels to those found in younger adults and reduce body fat, according to research being conducted at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and the Veterans Affairs Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle.