UW Medicine researchers say more studies are needed to determine the findings' clinical value.
College athletes face unique pressures when considering whether to disclose such an event, according to a study.
Machine learning identified preoperative conditions associated with poor outcomes of left-ventricle assist device surgery.
A study of veterans showed great uncertainty about whether to attribute symptoms to long COVID or to patients' other existing conditions.
The advance creates hope for treating glaucoma and other neurodegenerative conditions in humans.
Results from a new molecular study provide a framework to guide engineering of future SARS-CoV-2 vaccines.
Latest work unexpectedly shows two close bat virus relatives of human respiratory virus MERS-CoV use bat ACE2 as cell entry receptor.
People who regularly engage in physical activity are less likely to go to the doctor, emergency room or hospital, UW Medicine study finds.
Articles on smoking and gun control noted specialists' university affiliations about 90% of the time, but only 77% of the time with references to abortion.
Most Alzheimer’s drugs in development target beta-amyloid, but targeting another protein, called tau, may be needed.
In a novel lab environment using mini kidney structures, drugs blocked the swelling of tubes seen with polycystic kidney disease.
Harnessing light energy to rejuvenate mitochondrial membrane potential slowed aging in C. elegans.
Worldwide study shows COVID vaccines and boosters reduced the risk of severe COVID-related disease in pregnant women by about 76%.
Treatment of childhood-onset hearing loss can be more precisely tailored with information on specific genetic cause.
Study reveals new therapeutic target to subdue autoimmune inflammation caused by loss of regulatory T cell function.
Dr. Shani Delaney, an associate professor of OB-GYN and maternal fetal medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, is a senior author of a study that found that results of a prenatal test used for over five decades should not be adjusted based on a patient's race.
Analysis of the outbreak shed light on its origins and transmission patterns, and assessed treatment and infection control.
RNA contact with tau protein spurs neurofibrillary tangles in the brain — a defining hallmark of Alzheimer’s and other diseases.
California blackworms tangle themselves up by the thousands, then separate in a split second. Their trick may inspire the design of self-detangling materials and fibers.
Collaboration finds that improved training and support of community health workers are needed to improve HIV testing.