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By Marla Salmon on February 12th, 2010
What should we teach the nurse of the future?
Dean of the UW School of Nursing blogs on the Future of Nursing
Category: University of Washington
By LocalHealthGuide on February 02nd, 2010
UW hosts Mini-Medical School
Seating is limited and is on a first-come, first-served basis so register online now.
By admin on August 12th, 2009
$13.5 million in loan repayments for nurses willing to work in facilities facing shortages or to teach
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 admin on August 10th, 2009
Five Lessons From Seattle On Adopting Electronic Medical Records
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 [...]
By admin on August 05th, 2009
Health stories in the news–Aug. 4th
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 [...]
By Michael McCarthy on July 15th, 2009
Sports concussion program opens at Harborview
Seattle’s Harborview Medical Center has opened a new center to evaluate young athletes who have had head injuries and provide training to teachers, coaches, parents and others involved in school sports on how to prevent, assess and treat concussions.
The new center, called the UW Medicine/Seattle Children’s Sports Concussion Program, was launched to help schools and [...]
By admin on July 13th, 2009
Health in the news – July 13
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 [...]
By admin on July 10th, 2009
Food can cost twice as much at some Seattle supermarket chains–UW nutrition researchers find
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 admin on July 09th, 2009
New Face of the Uninsured: Middle-Class Americans
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 [...]
By admin on July 07th, 2009
Health stories in the news – July 7th
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 [...]
By admin on June 09th, 2009
iCPR: Download cardio-pulmonary resuscitation instructions to your Apple or Google smart phones
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 [...]
By admin on June 08th, 2009
UWTV now on YouTube
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 [...]
By admin on June 06th, 2009
Health stories in the news
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 [...]
By admin on May 23rd, 2009
Health stories in the news
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 [...]
By Michael McCarthy on May 09th, 2009
International experts meet in Seattle to tackle stillbirth and deaths due to prematurity
More than 200 health experts from around the world are meeting this weekend in Seattle to tackle the global problem of stillbirth and infant death due to prematurity.
Every year there are more than 3 million stillbirths and another 1 million infant deaths due to complications of premature birth worldwide, said Dr. Craig Rubens, a professor [...]
By admin on May 05th, 2009
Health stories in the news
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 [...]
By admin on May 04th, 2009
Experts to give update on swine flu at UW today
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 [...]
By admin on May 02nd, 2009
Adolescents using insulin pumps achieve better blood sugar levels, but diabetes control still poor
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 [...]
By admin on April 24th, 2009
UW School of Medicine ranked among top 10 medical schools by U.S. News & World Report
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.
By admin on February 28th, 2009
Better numbers needed to cut heart attack deaths
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, [...]
By admin on January 30th, 2009
Simple checklist markedly reduces surgical deaths-updated video
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 [...]
By admin on January 22nd, 2009
UW to host free six-part “Mini-Medical School” lecture series
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, [...]
By admin on January 14th, 2009
Public forum on growth attenuation in children with profound disabilities
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 [...]
By admin on November 29th, 2008
AIDS expert to speak at UW for World AIDS Day
[ December 1, 2008; 5:30 pm; ]
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 [...]
By admin on November 29th, 2008
AIDS pioneer to speak at UW Monday, Dec. 1
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 [...]
By admin on November 18th, 2008
Ginkgo Biloba fails to prevent dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
Gingko biloba, a popular herbal preparation used to prevent or treat memory problems, failed to prevent the onset of dementia or Alzheimer’s diseases in a large study of older men and women.
The study appears in today’s issue of JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association
Gingko biloba is one of the most popular herbal products [...]
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