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Thursday, 04 November 2021

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First Children Under 12 in Washington State Get COVID-19 Vaccination

The Daily Telegraph Australia 04 Nov 2021

This video, released by University of Washington School of Medicine, shows the preteens receiving their vaccinations at ... UW Medicine via Storyful ....

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Washington state urges parents to be patient as COVID vaccine supply for kids 5-11 won’t ...

The Seattle Times 04 Nov 2021

Some of the first vaccines for kids age 5-11 were administered at a UW Medicine clinic Wednesday. Public health officials said the county "may not have enough to meet the expected demand" in the first few weeks but the constraint would be temporary ... .

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UW Medicine anticipates children ages 5-11 vaccine approval soon

Democratic Underground 02 Nov 2021

... a hardwired biological process, UW associate professor Dr ... https.//www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/uw-medicine-anticipates-children-ages-5-11-vaccine-approval-soon/ar-AAQfclr.

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Can an electroceutical treat rheumatoid arthritis?

Technology Org 01 Nov 2021

UW Medicine physicians are helping conduct a study to see whether nerve stimulation can reduce the inflammation that causes rheumatoid arthritis ... Andrew Ko, associate professor of neurological surgey at the UW School of Medicine, who is performing the surgeries.

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New tech gives kidney stone patients options

Technology Org 30 Oct 2021

Mathew Sorensen, a UW Medicine urologist ... Kidney tissue samples from UW Medicine were recently flown to the International Space Station to observe kidneys’ function in space ... Every year, more than 600 people in the throes of a kidney-stone episode seek emergency care at Harborview and UW Medical Center in Seattle.

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Jenifer Street Market's 'Spook'Toberfest: The candy corn brat that's captivated a nation

Killeen Daily Herald 28 Oct 2021

India Anderson-Carter, right, announces that she will be a resident in obstetrics and gynecology at UW-Madison through a Virtual Match Day hosted by UW School of Medicine and Public Health, as her family, including her sister, Lexus, at left, react to the news in the basement of her parents' home in Madison, Wis., Friday, March 20, 2020.

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Context Therapeutics® and Wisconsin Oncology Network Announce First Patient Dosed in Phase 2 ...

Eagle-Tribune 27 Oct 2021

... Care for the Department of Medicine at UW-Madison to spearhead this important research collaboration and explore this combination as a potential additional treatment option for patients living with this devastating disease,” said Martin Lehr, CEO of Context Therapeutics.

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Antibiotics for appendicitis: Study findings finalized

Technology Org 26 Oct 2021

The CODA study findings are reported in the New England Journal of Medicine ... David Flum, co-principal investigator and professor and associate chair of surgery at the University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine ... Giana Davidson. She is a UW associate professor of surgery and director of the CODA trial’s clinical coordinating center ... Source ... ....

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Some transplant patients told to get COVID shot, or move down on list

Union Leader 26 Oct 2021

Krista Lentine, a nephrologist at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine ... UW Medicine in Seattle began mandating COVID vaccines this summer, said Dr ... By contrast, Northwestern Medicine in Chicago, where doctors performed the first double-lung transplant on a COVID patient in ...

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‘The bare minimum’: Body donation programs at Washington universities contend with shortages

The Spokesman-Review 25 Oct 2021

If donors are unavailable through WSU, the UW School of Medicine’s Willed Body Program has been a second option ... In supplying donations, Pittack said UW prioritized the university’s partner sites in the WWAMI program, the School of Medicine’s five-state medical education program with schools in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.

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'The Bare Minimum': Body Donation Programs at Washington Universities Contend With Shortages

The Centralia Chronicle 25 Oct 2021

If donors are unavailable through WSU, the UW School of Medicine's Willed Body Program has been a second option ... In supplying donations, Pittack said UW prioritized the university's partner sites in the WWAMI program, the School of Medicine's five-state medical education program with schools in Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho.

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Most patients with appendicitis can have antibiotics as their first treatment, rather than appendectomy

News-Press Now 25 Oct 2021

Flum, MD, MPH, FACS, professor and associate chair of surgery at University of Washington (UW) School of Medicine in Seattle. David Talan, MD, emergency medicine physician, Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, is also co-principal investigator ... Davidson, MD, MPH, FACS, a co-investigator and an associate professor of surgery at UW School of Medicine.

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New air ambulance service opens in Tri-Cities to transport critical Eastern WA patients

The Bellingham Herald 25 Oct 2021

Airlift Northwest, the air medical transport service of UW Medicine, has opened a new base at the Tri-Cities Airport in Pasco to transport patients needing critical care. “It is a ....

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Twice as many killed by police as are reported

The Press Enterprise 22 Oct 2021

No, for once we’re not talking about the ways that Washington, D.C. indexes deaths caused by COVID-19 ... So the only comfort is in knowing that Murray and his team of researchers going forward will continue to issue their reports in an ongoing effort to correct the record on what UW School of Medicine Professor Edwin G.

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Nudging cells to repair damaged retinas

Technology Org 22 Oct 2021

“We see this research as opening up the possibility of gene therapies for diseases where retinal neurons are lost,” said Tom Reh, professor of biological structure at the UW School of Medicine who led the research team.