| March 09, 2012 | Managing Diabetes During Pregnancy |
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Diabetes - whether existing or gestational - can cause complications during pregnancy. Dr. Zane Brown, director of UW Medicine’s Diabetes and Pregnancy Program, explains how close monitoring, nutrition and family counseling can help prevent dangerous complications and birth defects.
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| January 07, 2012 | Girl's 'Jewels of Hope' funds cancer research |
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A 14-year-old Poulsbo girl surprised herself and doctors at the UW Medical Center when she set a goal to fight cancer with "style." Greer Gates set out to raise $5,000 - by selling her "Jewels of Hope." In the process, she not only doubled her goal, she's created hope.
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| October 18, 2011 | The UW's next generation of infertility treatment |
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UW Medicine reproductive care specialists provide infertility care for both genders. Several new advances are now available to assist prospective parents unable to have children on their own.
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| September 30, 2011 | Money matters in more ways than one for families |
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A couple’s financial situation contributes significantly to their decision not to have more children, and requires the couple, especially the female partner, to pay more attention to contraception, according to a national survey.
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| September 27, 2011 | Wash. state raises bar to skip kids' vaccinations |
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A new Washington state law is getting attention as an example of how to encourage more parents to vaccinate their kids.
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| September 20, 2011 | Cooling newborns to save lives |
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Newborns spend 72 hours wrapped in a special blanket that lowers their body temperature three to four degrees. They have continuous specialized monitoring throughout the process.
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| August 04, 2011 | Seattle Met recognizes 160 UW Medicine Top Doctors 2011 |
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| July 29, 2011 | Uganda lacks resources to prevent maternal deaths |
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Half of the 340,000 deaths of women from pregnancy-related causes each year occur in Africa, almost all in anonymity.
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| July 18, 2011 | Monitoring high-risk pregnancy |
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Finding out that your baby is facing a health issue can be terrifying - especially during pregnancy. But now there are options to help diagnose and monitor abnormalities in the womb.
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| July 07, 2011 | UW Medicine physicians at the 'top' |
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| July 01, 2011 | Top Docs '11: Maternal & Fetal Medicine |
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Seattle Magazine Top Doctors in 2011: Edith Cheng, Michael Gravett, Jane Hitti, and Thomas Benedetti.
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| June 11, 2011 | Wash. still seeks winning strategy against childhood obesity |
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For a decade, Washington has been fighting for your life. It's about your weight — or, more important, the weight of your children.
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| March 18, 2011 | UW medical students make a Match with residency programs |
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Nearly 190 University of Washington medical students went through this year’s Match in events held in Seattle, Boise, Anchorage and Spokane.
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| March 10, 2011 | Popular baby media may not advance learning |
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Some researchers have found that kids who start watching baby media at an earlier age are apt to show less ability with language than kids who never were exposed to the videos or started watching later.
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| January 01, 2010 | Our Neonatal Team |
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Neonatal team combines compassionate care, discovery to treat region’s most fragile babies
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