ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ (UW) physicians based at Harborview Medical
Center are evaluating the use of magnesium sulfate in preventing the
negative effects generally associated with severe head injuries.
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U-Link is a ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ (UW) pilot project to make medical records available immediately over the Internet to a patient’s UW and referring physicians in a confidential, secured fashion.
The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ 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.
The brightest object yet observed in the universe has been discovered by a ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ astronomer and his colleagues.
The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ’s Class of 1998 totals 9,952, a preliminary count of undergraduate, graduate and professional students receiving degrees at three Commencement ceremonies.
Elisabeth Marie Zeller, 26, will be recognized as the outstanding senior at the university’s 123rd Commencement June 13 in Seattle. She is receiving bachelor’s degrees in history and economics.
The numbers paint a grim picture. While women and minorities are projected to make up 68 percent of new entrants to the U.S. labor force by the year 2000, only a small fraction of them are likely be trained as scientists and engineers.
The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ is a key player in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ambitious new effort to create the first-ever digital map of the heavens.
A physics collaboration that includes a team from the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ has unveiled evidence indicating that subatomic particles known as neutrinos have mass.
New research indicates that young women who are compelled to exercise at excessive levels are at risk for developing eating disorders and general psychological unhappiness.
The UW’s animation arts class has been transformed into a full-blown production studio in which art, music and computer science students blend their diverse talents to produce a movie — from storyboards to soundtracks.
Physicists at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) in Geneva have created the highest-energy electrons and positrons, the anti-matter counterparts of electrons, ever produced in a man-made particle accelerator.
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.
Beginning June 1, a new ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ cable television channel will broadcast real-time, rush-hour traffic updates so viewers can get a forecast of their morning commute along with the weather.
El Nino means milder winters for some in the United States and flooding and mudslides for others. For the penguins living in the Galapagos Islands off South America, it means possible starvation.
The Carl J. Herzog Foundation has given the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ School of Medicine $1.5 million dollars, of which half will establish an Endowed Student Support Fund.
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.
Dr. Richard J. Blandau, an early leader of the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ School of Medicine and an international figure in research on reproductive biology, died Monday afternoon, May 11, at Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle.
Dr. John B. Coombs, associate vice president for medical affairs and associate dean for regional affairs and rural health at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ School of Medicine, has been named the first holder of the Theodore J. Phillips Endowed Professorship in Family Medicine.
The Carl J. Herzog Foundation has given the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ School of Medicine $1.5 million dollars, of which half will establish an Endowed Student Support Fund.
The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ (UW) was one of seven medical schools in the nation to maintain a three-year average of more than 30 percent of its graduates entering family practice residencies from 1995 through 1997.
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.
Researchers have succeeded in introducing a gene that produces a human photopigment into laboratory mice, creating transgenic rodents that have the widest known spectral range of vision of any mammal.
Hans-Peter Marshall seems to like the cold.
A new study from the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ shows that generalists are much more likely than specialists to act as primary-care providers for their elderly Medicare patients
The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ unveiled today on Capitol Hill the APEC Internet Collaboration Center-next generation Internet technology that will re-define how international policy is formulated in the Internet Age.
Dr. Kyra Becker Dr. David Newell, and their colleagues will embark on an ambitious campaign this month to educate the people of King County about stroke.
The United Nations-sponsored climate convention in Kyoto last December was a failure, according to an award-winning global warming expert who will deliver the 1998 Evans Lecture at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ.
A model system for dealing with radioactive wastes earned ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ chemical engineering students third prize last week at an international environmental design contest.
Aeronautical engineering researchers at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ have been awarded a $456,000 grant from the Office of Naval Research to launch a fleet of unmanned airplanes to gather this missing weather data.
Last week, Dana Doyle became the first Seattle-area patient to receive an NCP System implant, or vagus nerve stimulator (VNS) at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Regional Epilepsy Center at Harborview.
With robots exploring Mars, cars navigating themselves around town and computers beating world chess champions, there’s never been a more exciting time to be an engineer. Students and families from throughout Puget Sound can see for themselves at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ College of Engineering Open House.
Researchers at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ 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.
Although collaborative learning is a hot idea in education, a new study by ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ Assistant Professor of Education Mark Windschitl suggests the amount students learn may be related to whom they’re collaborating with.
A new center that was formally launched at the American Educational Research Association conference hopes to bring together the many different groups who have been talking – mostly separately – about the improvement of teaching.
ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ’s concrete canoe team sank the competition Sunday (April 5) to win its first regional title in 16 years at the 1998 Pacific Northwest regional student conference of the American Society of Civil Eng ineers in Seattle.
Being overweight later in life does not pose a significant risk to your health, according to findings of a comprehensive study published in the April 1998 issue of the American Journal of Public Health. On the contrary, it appears that weight loss is far more unhealthy in those 65 and older.
ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ psychologists have determined that certain people seem to possess a common trait that enables them to survive, or even flourish, in pressure-cooker situations.
The ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ is hosting a civil engineering olympics, of sorts, featuring concrete canoe races and a steel bridge-building cont est.
Dr. David W. Russell, assistant professor of medicine, and Roli Hirata, research technician at the ÁñÁ«ÊÓƵ, 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.