The ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø is launching a new Clinical Trials Unit, as part of a national consortium to develop and test new methods of preventing and treating sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
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Dr. Donald Vereen, special assistant for medical affairs at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, will give a lecture on “Drug Abuse: Myths and Facts” from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the Lyceum at Wenatchee Valley Community College.
Reflecting the growing public interest in alternative and complementary medicine, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Pharmacy’s 19th annual Don B. Katterman Lecture will focus on “Herbal Medicine: Trends, Problems, Solutions and Products.”
Physicians from ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø-affiliated hospitals in Seattle — ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center, Harborview Medical Center, Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center — and the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine constitute more than 50 percent of the Western Washington doctors in the latest regional listings of The Best Doctors in America.
PHILADELPHIA — Exercise and diet play an important role in weight regulation, but the true key to weight control lies in understanding and identifying personal quirks in the biological system.
It’s every patient’s worst nightmare: the thought of undergoing surgery with inadequate anesthesia; of feeling the cut of the surgeon’s knife, but being unable to tell anyone that you’re not completely unconscious
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Reflecting the emergence of a new research discipline combining human genetics and pathology, the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Medicine will establish a Center for Molecular Genetic Pathology.
The impact of multiple births on a family is not additive, it’s exponential. Few parents are prepared for the enormous emotional, physical and financial demands that accompany this phenomenon. To help couples deal with this huge change in their lives, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center hosts “Expecting Multiples,” a series of classes for families expecting twins or more.
A clinical trial performed by ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers shows that administering an anti-arrhythmia medication, amiodarone, offers considerable promise in helping to resuscitate cardiac arrest victims.
A postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø geneticist Dr. Mary-Claire King has succeeded in cloning a gene which, when mutated, causes an inherited form of deafness.
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While there is never a good time to acquire a herpes infection, contracting the virus late in pregnancy can prove catastrophic for the newborn child, with a high risk of severe brain damage or death from neonatal herpes.
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Bringing together the most advanced medical, surgical and research resources available to fight the most virulent form of skin cancer, ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center has established a multidisciplinary Melanoma Center.
International programs offer ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø nursing students health care experience around the world
Seven physicians at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center were named among The Best Doctors For Women in a new poll commissioned by Good Housekeeping magazine and published in the August 1997 issue, currently on newsstands.
In the first such instance in the Seattle area, a Puyallup man is being kept alive at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center with the help of a new type of implanted heart pump, until a donor heart becomes available for transplant.
Do you have a child aged 4 to 7 who is overly aggressive and non-compliant? You and your child may qualify for a program at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing’s Parenting Clinic.
New method of tracing metastatic breast cancer to the lymph nodes decreases the need for extensive surgery
Prevention of drug interactions, say researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Pharmacy, lies in learning how the human body processes each drug. The school has recently established a formal Program in Drug Interactions, tapping the expertise of 22 faculty members believed to be the largest group of experts in the world on drug interactions.
The state Department of Health has granted a certificate of need to ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center and Northwest Hospital, approving an application filed last summer to develop a collaborative cardiac care program
The Paul G. Allen Foundation for Medical Research has committed $3.2 million for research at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø into the causes of and cures for prostatitis, a common but under-studied infection of the prostate gland.
New studies reported in the May 1 edition of Nature appear to contradict traditional thinking about the sympathetic nervous system’s influence in people who never gain weight no matter how much they eat, versus those who seemingly put on pounds if a piece of cheesecake is merely passed under their nose.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Physicians are sponsoring a free series of talks on Get Fit For Summer, at the REI main store, 222 Yale Ave. N. in Seattle.
Researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø report in the April 14, 1997 issue of Virology that they may have an explanation for why the currently approved drug treatment for hepatitis C is ineffective much of the time. The drug, recombinant alpha interferon, is ineffective in 60 to 80 percent of cases.
Pharmacists and other health care professionals will discuss a variety of issues related to managed care and Medicaid, at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Pharmacy’s annual Don B. Katterman Memorial Lecture.
A study of the effects of estrogen deficiency on body-fat distribution and cholesterol metabolism has been launched by the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, to determine why and how the risk of coronary artery disease increases in women as they age.
Low-risk patients who choose nurse midwives for their obstetrical care have fewer Caesarean sections, receive less anesthesia, have a much lower rate of episiotomy and incur less expense, compared to similar women who choose physicians for their care.
The first patient to participate in a clinical trial of a new laser heart surgery technique at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center is now recovering at home. The technique, called transmyocardial revascularization (TMR), creates new pathways for blood to reach oxygen-starved heart tissue in patients with coronary artery disease.
DIURETICS AND BETA BLOCKERS SHOULD CONTINUE as first-line treatments for high blood pressure, according to conclusions of ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers after analyzing a number of clinical trials.
Diuretics and beta blockers should continue to be first-line treatments for high blood pressure because of their safety and effectiveness, researchers conclude after analyzing a number of clinical trials.
Dr. Roger Rosenblatt, professor of medicine and vice chair of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Department of Family Medicine, has received one of six national 1996 Primary Care Achievement Awards from the Pew Health Professions Commission.
Dr. Nancy Fugate Woods, director of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø School of Nursing’s internationally known Center for Women’s Health Research, has been named the school’s associate dean for research.
President Clinton has named the director of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Health Sciences Libraries and Information Center to a new committee to advise on the future of electronic information and communications, the White House announced Feb. 12.
To help protect against endometrial cancer, women who take estrogen replacement therapy should also take progestin at least 10 days a month, say researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
As part of a public outreach project on “Addiction and the Brain: Beyond Saying No,” the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø will offer a seven-part evening series on the “Neurobiology of Addiction,” beginning in mid-March.
People with severe hearing loss, as well as profoundly deaf persons, may be candidates for a new cochlear implant about to undergo clinical trials at ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Medical Center.
Knowing a patient’s medical history has a small but significant impact on radiologists’ interpretations of mammograms and recommendations for followup,a new study shows.