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).
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Parents of newborn boys have better knowledge about the possible risks of circumcision from a new study by doctors at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
Frank Keyser, 81, really ought to be bedridden right now. But thanks to a new surgical technique, he’s able to visit his beloved spaniel Mugsy’s kennel in his Bremerton yard.
Yegor Gaidar, one of the principal architects of Russia’s painful transition from communism, will assess his country’s current situation in a speech Tuesday, Jan. 18, at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
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.
Rudy Crew, who stepped down Wednesday after four years as chancellor of New York public schools, will become executive director of the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s new Institute for K-12 Leadership effective Feb. 1.
Phytoplankton high in a certain essential fatty acid may be a major factor in supporting thriving fish populations and clear water in lake ecosystems, according to researchers in California and Washington.
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.
To help children and their parents deal with such situations, the newly created LEARN Clinic was established at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø to provide comprehensive learning and behavioral assessments for children who are experiencing difficulties in school or whose parents are considering changing their school placement.
Concerns about the legal right of insurance companies to deny patients coverage for injuries due to alcohol use may be discouraging physicians from screening and counseling their patients on the risks of alcoholism, according to a study by physicians at Harborview Medical Center to be published in the January 2000 issue of the Journal of Trauma.
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.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø dental students are studying in a modified laboratory this year that may show us what many dental classrooms will look like someday.
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 growing body of evidence indicates that a climate phenomenon called the Arctic Oscillation has wide-ranging effects in the Northern Hemisphere and operates differently from other known climate cycles.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø (ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø) third-year medical students training at distant family medicine sites across a five-state region regularly report to the Red, Blue or Yellow Clinic. These are not actual patient-care settings, but divisions of a Web-based Virtual Clinic, a new learning tool for medical students.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø law professor Louis Wolcher has received a $15,800 prize in a unique global essay competition involving 2,481 writers from 123 countries. Wolcher’s philosophical treatise on Eastern and Western concepts of time, entitled “Time’s Language,” took second place overall in the first-ever International Essay Prize Contest.
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.
ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researchers have developed a method of crafting medical implants from an antibacterial polymer that could prevent thousands of patients from dying of hospital-acquired infections each year.
Dr. Leroy Hood, chairman of the Department of Molecular Biotechnology and William Gates III Professor of Biomedical Sciences, is leaving the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø faculty to form a private Institute for Systems Biology.
More than 300 mayors, administrators, finance chiefs and other local officials will attend a daylong workshop Wednesday (Dec. 15) at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø on how to implement Initiative 695.
A new technique using ice-penetrating radar is allowing scientists for the first time to reveal long-ago changes in West Antarctic ice streams, rivers of ice believed to be linked to the stability of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Across the nation, many physicians-in-training are learning to go beyond the routine family medical history and gain a better understanding of a patient?s family situation.
A plume of pollution that crossed the Pacific Ocean from Asia earlier this year contained ozone at levels high enough to violate a new federal ozone standard.
Harborview Medical Center has received a three-year accreditation from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations with the special designation of commendation.
Harborview Medical Center has received its three-year accreditation with the special designation of commendation from the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Health Care Organizations (JCAHO). This is the highest rating that the JCAHO awards to health care organizations.
News conference by the newly formed Hepatitis C Coalition to discuss key findings from a statewide public awareness survey about a largely unknown, but potentially deadly, disease.
The jurors had been in the room for five hours.
Even before protests and arrests disrupted this week’s World Trade Organization conference, Puget Sound residents were skeptical of the WTO’s mission and believed the organization wasn’t listening to the public and didn’t care what it thought, according to a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø survey.
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader will address the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø Law School tomorrow (Thursday, Dec. 2) on his criticisms of the World Trade Organization.
A forum entitled “The United States, the European Union and WTO: Genetically Modified Products, National Sanctions, British Beef, and American Hormones,” will take place from 6:10 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Kane Hall 120.
Microwaves similar to those emitted by cell phones may affect long-term memory, according to a new study by a ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø researcher.
A conference, The WTO and the Developing World in the Millennium Round: Beyond the NGO Din, will be held at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø from 8:30 – 5:00 on Monday, November 29 in the Walker-Ames Room in Kane Hall.
A speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø, which had been tentatively scheduled for Dec. 2, has been cancelled.
Fuzzy logic can deliver exacting answers about the ever-changing status of area freeways to help move traffic more efficiently, according to researchers at the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø.
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.
Former South African President Nelson Mandela is scheduled to visit the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø’s Warren G. Magnuson Health Sciences Center Dec. 9 to participate in a Global Health Roundtable sponsored by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
A speech by Cuban President Fidel Castro is tentatively planned for 8 p.m. Dec. 2 in Meany Hall on the ºÚÁϳԹÏÍø campus, but his appearance in Seattle has not been confirmed.