Totem pole ⁦UW Medicine⁩ NW campus rededicated. Carved by world renowned Tsimshian artist David Boxley in memory of his sister-in-law, Cindy Sue James, treated at NW, the Eagle’s Spirit Totem Pole honors Cindy Sue’s legacy and all cancer patients, survivors, and caregivers.

'People don't realize that getting into very cold water like we have here in the northwest, can kill you within a minute,' said ER Dr. Stephen Morris UW Emergency Medicine UW Medicine Harborview Medical Center Story by: Christine Pae
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Staffing is starting to stabilize, noted UW Medicine's Bianca Frogner, but some specific areas within health care are not back, such as long-term care facilities.
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The anti- #fluoride movement is troubling to doctors who treat children and others vulnerable to tooth decay. 'I think we’re going to take big step backwards,” said Dr. Charlotte Lewis UW Pediatrics Seattle Children's. tinyurl.com/mr2n2kwz

High-five to UW Rheumatology! A team of providers went to Capitol Hill to talk w/ lawmakers about how Medicare reforms will affect patient access. UW Medicine UW Department of Medicine

New data showing a surge in #heartfailure deaths across all age groups are 'surprising and worrisome,' says Dr. April Stempien-Otero UWashington Heart Institute. Learn more: shorturl.at/acBMN UW Cardiology

“The goal would be that, ultimately … we can use the technology in awake patients, in the office, with no anesthesia,” says UW Urology VA Puget Sound Dr. Mathew Sorensen of new nonsurgical kidney stone treatments. Read Urology Times: tinyurl.com/3yp6uk8c

Supplements for kids are increasing in popularity: “People assume because it is natural, it’s perfectly safe. It isn’t,” says UW Pediatrics Seattle Children's Dr. Cora Collette Breuner. Read Romper: tinyurl.com/55zfk298

Starting to #snore as you get older? Don’t panic, says UW Medicine Dr. Vishesh Kapur “Things become looser as you age” and snoring “could just be a sign that you’ve lived a lot.” Read Inverse: tinyurl.com/p336e4tw #sleep

“We’re not actually most of the time studying the #cannabis that people are actually consuming, so that’s a big problem,” says UW Psychiatry ADAI UW director Susan Ferguson (@parkourmom) of proposal to reduce cannabis’ federal classification. Watch: tinyurl.com/2eb4m5fc

“One of the problems that we have, and that I’ve noticed in my career, is that people with memory loss wait until it’s too late,” Dr. Michael Rosenbloom UW Memory Brain said. UW Neurology UW Medicine Story by Jillian Wilson HuffPost tinyurl.com/9rxnmnx8

“David Baker isn’t interested in tinkering. Rather than modifying the proteins that nature has bestowed on us, Baker designs entirely new ones,” says his Times Magazine profile. Read about his honor. Institute for Protein Design UW Biochemistry UW Medicine tinyurl.com/3mbp2kdj

More smoking, less injecting. Alison Newman ADAI UW and UW Psychiatry talked with KUOW Public Radio about emerging trends in Washington state. shorturl.at/tDLPW Eilís O'Neill

The US Preventative Services Task Force now recommends #mammogram screenings begin at age 40 to address #HealthInequalities in #breastcancer .
Read the JAMA editorial coauthored by Dr. Christoph Lee.
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A new study out by @IHME on gender inequities in healthcare worldwide.