Dr. Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine, has named Dr. Andrew A. “Andy” Ziskind associate dean for clinical affairs and associate vice president for clinical specialty programs.
Author: Laurie McHale
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine have performed the first randomized controlled clinical trial showing that a painful and even life-threatening bowel condition called acute colonic pseudo-obstruction can be effectively treated with intravenous neostigmine.
Clinical studies are underway at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to determine the effectiveness of heat therapy to manage pressure ulcers (bed sores).
Deciphering the human genome and the increasing availability of genetic testing raise ethical, legal and social challenges. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing will address these challenges when it hosts the 20th annual Elizabeth Sterling Soule Lecture.
Dr. Robb Glenny, associate professor of medicine and of physiology and biophysics at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, has won the only Guggenheim Fellowship Award given in medicine this year.
The 50th anniversary of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center will be celebrated next week with a symposium on “The Health Information Challenge: Connecting People to Knowledge for Life.”
The Scientific Instruments Division of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will celebrate 50 years of achievement with an anniversary celebration and open house.
A 56-year-old Maple Valley man is about to leave ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center with the help of a new, fully portable heart pump that will assist his failing heart until a donor heart becomes available for transplant.
Damage to the sensory hair cells in the inner ear is the most frequent cause of permanent hearing loss.
Living donors can now donate a kidney using laparoscopic surgery
A “Walk for Life” will mark the beginning of Suicide Prevention Week, which will be observed May 2 to 8. Suicide Prevention Week is an opportunity to raise awareness of suicide, which takes the lives of 30,000 Americans every year.
Reflecting the growing public interest in alternative and complementary medicine, the 20th annual Don B. Katterman Lecture will focus on “Practical Herbal Medicine.” The lecture is sponsored by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Pharmacy Alumni Association and the School of Pharmacy.
Dr. Pamela Mitchell has been appointed associate dean for research at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing.
Recognizing the vital importance of training physicians who are dedicated to patient-centered care, the Rathmann Family Foundation will contribute $1.5 million to fund an endowed chair in patient-centered clinical education at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
Responding to a pressing need for more health care providers on the Olympic Peninsula, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing is launching a pilot project to offer nurses on the peninsula easier access to courses that prepare them to become adult acute care nurse practitioners.
More parking stalls should be available for patients and their visitors in the Triangle Parking Garage. The daily rate without a validation sticker will be raised from $6 to $18, to deter others from parking there.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has been selected as one of six new National Centers of Excellence in Women’s Health by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Office on Women’s Health.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø has received notification from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research that it will receive $3.5 million for a Multiple Sclerosis (MS) Research and Training Center, renewable every five years.
Dr. Steven G. Gabbe, professor and chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine and an international authority on high-risk pregnancy, has been elected to the Institute of Medicine.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine has established the Ray and Grace Hill Endowed Chair in Ophthalmology, funded through contributions of $1.5 million from Grace E. Hill and her late husband, Ray Hill, who graduated from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in economics in 1924.
Grateful for the excellent care he received in 1994 at Harborview Medical Center after a serious foot injury, a California man has donated $500,000 to the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine to create an endowed professorship in the Department of Orthopaedics.
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø in Seattle have shown that older women’s response to treatment with GHRH (a synthetic form of growth hormone releasing hormone) is directly related to the dosage.
A recently completed study shows that calcitonin-salmon nasal spray reduced by 36 percent the incidence of new spinal fractures in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis.
http://admin.urel.washington.edu/newsinfo/archives/1998archive/08-98archive/k081298.html
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing has named Dr. Linda Teri director of its de Tornyay Center on Healthy Aging. She will also be a tenured professor in the school’s Department of Psychosocial and Community Health.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center is again ranked among the top hospitals in the country, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 1998 annual guide to “America’s Best Hospitals,” available on newsstands July 20.
Two ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty members in the Department of Medicine have received Doris Duke Clinical Scientist Awards, the first ever awarded.
Almost five years to the day after receiving a double-lung transplant at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center, cystic fibrosis patient Ken Price plans to ride in the annual Seattle-to-Portland bicycle trek this weekend.
The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing has entered into an agreement with SafeWare Inc., a Bellevue-based software company, to join a distance-learning cooperative to provide continuing education courses and related online services to health care professionals across the nation.
Investigators reviewing three decades of research into body weight regulation conclude that it may not be possible to find a single effective treatment for obesity. Instead, drug therapy may have to target the multiple systems that control weight.
Research published this week in the journal Science failed to verify even one case of transient infection among 42 cases where infants showed evidence of HIV-1 infection contracted from their mothers, but somehow became free of the virus that causes AIDS.
Smiles, tears, laughter and hugs will be the order of the day when cancer survivors, their families and friends, hospital staff and volunteers gather to celebrate National Cancer Survivors’ Day from 1 to 4 p.m. on Sunday, June 7.
A new study from the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø shows that generalists are much more likely than specialists to act as primary-care providers for their elderly Medicare patients
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Harvard University have determined that at least one woman in two will receive a false-positive result after having annual screening mammograms for a decade, and almost 20 percent of women will undergo a biopsy.
Dr. David W. Russell, assistant professor of medicine, and Roli Hirata, research technician at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, report the successful use of a modified virus to perform a novel method of gene replacement that may be an important step toward overcoming obstacles to efficient gene therapy.
The first Northwest Hispanic Nurses Conference will be held on Friday, May 1, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s South Campus Center. The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing is a co-sponsor of the conference.
American women who do not have a strong family history of breast cancer should not feel the need to be tested for BRCA1, the gene whose mutations are associated with a predisposition to breast cancer.
DEVELOPING VITAL NEW MEDICATIONS FOR CYSTIC FIBROSIS is the goal of a new therapeutics research center established at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø and Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center.
A team led by geneticist Dr. Karen Avraham of Tel Aviv University has discovered a defective gene that causes progressive hearing loss in a large Israeli family.
Research at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing is not confined to laboratories. Its influence is felt in communities within and beyond Washington state. Nursing research makes a difference in people’s lives.