Specialty care highlights for UW Medical Center friends
Summer 2007
- Montana golf coach rebounds after heart transplant
- Surviving the odds
- Patient and Family Housing Fund
- MRI helps detect breast cancer
- Pancreatic surgery saves lives
- Team of doctors tackle cancerous brain tumor
Spring 2007
- Ultrasound, surgery help an athlete recover
- Innovation, patients at the heart of vascular research
- MRI technology determines surgery
- Botulinum toxin restores speech
- Preventing shoulder injuries
- Record numbers turn out for UW Medical Center Seattle Marathon
Winter 2006
- Minimally invasive hip surgery
- UW orthopaedic team expands
- UWMC nursing excellence recognized
- Making television work for kids
- Cervical cancer vaccine now available
- Direct access to high-tech heart care
- New MRIs, patient exam rooms
- Spine surgery improves quality of life
Spring 2006
- Curing dancers' injured feet
- Women have bypasses, too
- Hearing restored after stapes surgery
- Research improves care
- Pumps to transplants for diabetes
- Surgery reveals hidden breast cancer
- Team approach solves vascular aneurysms
Winter 2005-2006.pdf
- IPF treatment requires clinical trials
- Accomodative lenses for cataracts
- Active after ACL surgery
- Lymphoma trials increase cure rates
- Family Medicine - hub for health care
- Curing athletic hearts in trouble
- Revolutionary 3-D heart images
- Pituitary tumors - common, treatable
- Easy access to ENT specialists
Summer/Fall 2005
- Tongue cancer patient triumphs
- Ovarian cancer patient beats odds
- Spine surgery saves climber's career
- Electrophysiology keeps heart in sync
- Liver/kidney transplant improves life
- Pump delivers pain relief
Spring 2005
- Breathing assistance liberates student
- Team approach keeps her walking
- Simple treatment relieves Menieres disease
- Life saved with left ventricular assist device
- Optimistic despite brain tumor
- Nerve-sparing prostatectomies
Winter 2005
- Surviving acute liver failure
- Laser surgery zaps throat cancer
- Living with lung cancer
- Minimal approach relieves back pain
- Fixing a broken wrist the modern way
- Second chance after heart attack
Autumn 2004
- Summiting with crampons, ropes, and stents
- Rehab brings stroke victim back to herself
- Alleviating cancer worries
- Transplant relieves effects of diabetes
- Cochlear implants bring identity change
- Repairing shoulders with a minimal approach
Summer 2004
- Living with congenital heart disease
- Cornea transplant from the heart
- Minimal approach aids brain tumor replacements
- Quadriceps-sparing total knee replacements
- Clinical trials help improve cancer treatment
- Better breathing after sinus surgery
Spring 2004
- Preventing pre-term birth saves lives
- Treating high blood pressure
- Head cold to heart failure
- Back in step after spine surgery
- Hiding lines with brow lifts,
Botox®, and Restylane
- Leading-edge lung cancer
Winter 2004
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Complex surgery keeps heart pumping
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Split liver transplantation
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Brachytherapy for breast cancer
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Treating seasonal knee injuries
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Body contouring
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Assistive listening devices
Fall 2003
Summer 2003
Spring 2003
- Bouncing back from sudden death
- Too much iron is bad for you
- Preventing preterm birth
- His shoulder's chance to swing
- Fractured larynx repaired
- Team approach treats rare cancers
Winter 2003
- He's here today, thanks to a lung transplant
- Women have heart attacks, too
- Reducing pregnancy risks for women with diabetes
- Artificial hips, knees, and now vertebral disks
- Cosmetic surgery can change your life
- Team approach treats rare cancers
Autumn 2002
- Expecting the unexpected with open arms
- Curing atrial fibrillation
- Basketball champion scores new liver
- Minimal approach has major effects
- Hearing restored with breakthrough technology
- Beating a recurrence takes teamwork
Summer 2002
- Sports Medicine - a health-care philosophy
- Simple device closes risk for stroke
- Hepatitis C - a silent stalker
- Helping life's miracles along
- No "ZZZ's" in apnea
- Curable lung cancer is found early
Spring 2002
- A new heart. A realization that tomorrow is never promised
- You dont know you have it until it hurts — carpal tunnel syndrome
- A cure for diabetes? Progressing toward a sweet idea
- Why smart babies ask to be delivered at UWMC
- Treating cancer to save a kiss
- New technique helps avoid mastectomies
Autumn 2001 issue
Nursing Care
Summer 2001 issue
Sports Medicine
Spring 2001 issue
Diagnostic Services
Winter 2001 issue
Heart Care
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