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Top Docs Survey [Update]
Seattle magazine’s 2013 Top Doctors survey has been extended a few days to midnight, January 30, 2013. If you are a Puget Sound-area doctor, please visit seattlemag.com/topdocssurvey to nominate distinguished doctors and practitioners in the area. If you have questions about the survey, please contact Top Doctors Project Manager Niki Stojnic at niki.stojnic@tigeroak.com.
High Tech Help for Preventing Sports Brain Injury
A Seattle company could hold a key to solving the nationwide epidemic of sport-related concussions.
The numbers are staggering: An estimated 3.8 million sport- and recreation-related concussions occur every year across the country, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But a Seattle company could hold a key to solving the nationwide epidemic of sport-related concussions. X2Impact has created head-impact monitoring systems to help team physicians and athletic…
Three Livesaving Developments Pioneered Locally
Including the first new drug approved by the FDA for Hodgkin’s lymphoma in more than 30 years.
Three Eastside tech firms have pioneered lifesaving new devices and treatments in the past year. Redmond’s Mobisante has created a MOBILE ULTRASOUND IMAGING DEVICE—the MobiUS SP1 ultrasound system—that is the first smartphone-based diagnostic device to be cleared by the FDA. The device, released last October, fits into a pocket and can be charged anywhere, making…
Multiple Sclerosis Update: Major New MS Center Opens in Seattle
Multiple sclerosis is more prevalent in the Northwest than almost anywhere else on earth, for reasons that are largely unknown, according to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society—more than 12,000 people in the Northwest, Montana and Alaska have been diagnosed with the disease. To battle that statistic, Swedish Medical Center has just opened the largest and…
“Smart” Cancer Treatment for Kids
This developing therapy could potentially one day eliminate the need for chemotherapy and radiation.
There’s a powerful new weapon in the battle against pediatric cancer, thanks to a new “smart” therapy that could one day eliminate the need for chemotherapy and radiation. The therapy harnesses the power of the immune system to recognize and fight cancer. Here’s how it works: A child’s immune system is reprogrammed to recognize and…
Sleep Deprived in Seattle
Why local experts are prescribing fewer sleeping pills despite a growing insomnia epidemic.
When Courtney Crocker found herself wide awake and cleaning her house at 4 a.m., she knew she needed a different way to manage her insomnia. A recent nursing school graduate, Crocker, 30, of Eastlake, had been assigned the night shift at the University of Washington Medical Center’s intensive care unit. Within a couple of months,…
Websites and Apps For Your Health
We checked in with local doctors* to find out which sites they recommend—and use themselves.
With thousands of health-related websites and smartphone apps to choose from, finding the best can be daunting. We checked in with local doctors* to find out which sites they recommend—and use themselves. 7 Great Websites I want trustworthy general medical informationNlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/The National Institutes of Health’s website offers very good general health information and a good…
Personal Stories: Meet Your Top Doctors of 2011
Fifteen respected doctors in our area talk about their passions, plus our Top Docs Hall of Fame
All Conceivable Options: R. Dale McClure, M.D. (see photo above) Specialties: Urology, male infertility Practice and hospital affiliation: Seattle Reproductive Medicine; Virginia Mason Medical Center Of note: Dr. McClure is director of the Male Infertility and Microsurgical Unit at Virginia Mason Medical Center. He is also a clinical professor of urology at the University of…
Top Doctors 2010: Special Hall of Fame Edition
Saluting the 381 finest physicians in the Puget Sound region.
Over the past decade, Seattle magazine has been the go-to resource for information about the best doctors in the region. For this Top Doctors issue—our 10th since 2000—we created a Top Doctors Hall of Fame to honor the four doctors (pictured L to R: Dr. Joseph S. Gruss; Dr. Linda S. Mihalov; Dr. David R. Byrd;…
Behind the Scenes of Our July Issue: Is There a Doctor in the House?
Why, yes! In fact, there are 400 of 'em!
Know this feeling? You’re minding your own business, getting ready for work, washing that PopTart down with a delicious second cup of coffee, when suddenly Steve Inskeep pops into your kitchen (via KUOW) with this news: Coffee will kill you. And you think, “Didn’t I just hear somewhere that coffee will make me live longer?”…
Medical Outreach
Patients at some of the poorest hospitals in the world are getting relief from their pain—from Seatt
Taking Relief on the RoadA team of local doctors is easing the pain of patients in Third World hospitals Patients at some of the poorest hospitals in the world are getting relief from their pain—from Seattle doctors. Swedish Medical Center anesthesiologists Mark Cullen and Richard Solazzi were among a group that created Seattle Anesthesia Outreach…
Breast Cancer Is Striking more Women Under 40 than Ever Before
Why more young women are being diagnosed, and what you need to know to keep yourself safe.
When I received that fated phone call from my doctor telling me I had breast cancer, all I wanted to do was fall on the floor and cry. But first I had to go pick up my son from kindergarten. Somewhere between the mammogram and the core biopsy, I had become one of a growing…
Who’s Behind the Mask? Turns Out, You Can Choose Your Own Anesthesiologist
A new trend in surgery: More patients are powering up and insisting on pain management by a pre-sele
Last year, at age 50, Grace* was diagnosed with breast cancer for the second time in three years. She was scheduled for a double mastectomy with immediate reconstruction, and would likely be in surgery for about 13 hours. “It was scary,” Grace says. “Especially the anesthesia consult several weeks prior, where they tell you that…
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