by Research Team | Mar 30, 2015 | Health News
Hawaii ranks 49th in the nation for use of home health care services during the last six months of someone’s life. Videos from ACP Decisions show patients what their options are at the end of life.
by Research Team | Mar 30, 2015 | Health News
It looks like an MP3 player but this small device is aimed at helping diabetics avoid hypoglycemic attacks, also known as “hypos”, by copying the body’s own control system. The MiniMed 640G mimics the pancreas’s natural ability to predict and...
by Research Team | Mar 30, 2015 | Health News
A Bellevue family that lost three members to Alzheimer’s disease has donated $6?million to the University of Washington to advance cutting-edge research into the devastating and incurable brain disorder. Officials with the Ellison Foundation and UW Medicine...
by Research Team | Mar 29, 2015 | Health News
Chicago’s retired Cardinal Francis George has been readmitted to the hospital several months after he stopped treatment for kidney cancer. The Archdiocese of Chicago said Saturday that George was admitted to Loyola University Medical Center for treatment of what...
by Research Team | Mar 29, 2015 | Health News
In this Dec. 15, 2014 photo, Stacy Crites, right, a nurse on campus at the University of Washington’s Hall Health Primary Care Center in Seattle, takes the temperature of Kandice Joyner, left, a junior studying archeology, during a routine check-up. An...
by Research Team | Mar 29, 2015 | Health News
House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi bruised some longtime liberal allies when she worked with Speaker John Boehner to craft a rare bipartisan accord on Medicare. But lawmakers say it will enhance her stature as a dealmaker, and may help her party avoid being...
