Seattle Culture
Nine Local Homes with Stunning Entertaining Spaces
Beautiful homes made for throwing parties
Summer is officially in full swing, which means it’s high time for barbecues, s’mores near the firepit, breezy gatherings on the terrace and daytime picnics that transition into nighttime fireworks-watching parties. These nine to-die-for homes in and around Seattle (corralled courtesy of Seattle-based Porch.com), have their entertaining space designs down to a rarefied art. And…
Mainstreaming Alternative Medicine
People are incorporating naturopathy to acupunture into traditional medical treatment
!–paging_filter–p class=”TEXT”spanWhen one of Dr. Andrew Simon’s patients came in to his office complaining of flu symptoms, discussing whether medication was needed to mitigate the symptoms was just the beginning. “[He] complained about some upper back pain, so I did a back adjustment for [him]; and then we discussed stress, so I also helped with…
Cost Conscious Medicine
!–paging_filter–pIn a first among local medical centers, The Everett Clinic is taking the guesswork out of pricing medical procedures and tests by a href=”http://www.everettclinic.com/health-care-pricing.ashx?p=6254“posting them online/a. The move is an effort to help patients know what they’re getting into for something not covered by insurance or if they simply choose to pay out of pocket./ppSo…
Transplant Transformation
A new kidney transplantation technique breathed new life into Dr. Robert Jaffe
!–paging_filter–p“Inbsp; basically got a death sentence in my last year of medical school,” says Dr. Robert Jaffe. He was 28 years old and a family physician at Providence Health and Services in Rainier Valley when he began to experience symptoms, such as urinating blood, that made him realize something was very wrong with his body….
Back Story
Local innovations are making a pain-free lifestyle possible for those living with chronic back pain
!–paging_filter–pMichelle Hughes has a high tolerance for pain. Which is a good thing, because Hughes has been dealing with back and neck pain every single day since her car was rear-ended while she was stopped at a traffic light, about five years ago./ppThe pain is always there, and some days are worse than others./ppHughes’ job…
The Backlash Against Tech in Seattle: What we can Learn from San Francisco
The thriving tech industry is changing Seattle, and not everyone is happy about it
Strolling around Blanchard and Seventh in Seattle’s Denny Triangle, I’m taking in the last days of a forgettable block. It’s an easy spot to ignore as one passes by. Nondescript mid-rises commiserate with a Budget Rent A Car, a strip club and a fenced-off dirt lot. Having passed through the area for years, it’s hard…
Find: Genetics Experts
!–paging_filter–pThese specialists can help you decode your genetic health: br /br /a href=”http://depts.washington.edu/medgen/faculty/Fuki_Hisama.shtml“strongFuki M. Hisama, M.D./strong/a, Medical Director of the Genetic Medicine Clinic; 206.598.4030; br /a href=”depts.washington.edu”depts.washington.edu/abr /br /emSeattle magazine’s 2013 Top Doctors/embr /a href=”http://www.pathology.washington.edu/faculty/leppig“strongKathleen Leppig, M.D./strong/a, genetics, Group Health, Capitol Hill; 206.326.3000; a href=”ghc.org”ghc.org/a br /br /a href=”http://www.seattlechildrens.org/medical-staff/Margaret-L-P-Adam/“strongMargaret L.P. Adam, M.D./strong/a and a href=”http://www.seattlechildrens.org/medical-staff/Ian-A-Glass/“strongIan…
Personal Health Records
New tools for Seattle’s tech savvy health consumers to track their health care details
!–paging_filter–pIt wasn’t long ago that a person’s personal health record was a box kept at home, overflowing with immunization records, lab results and past prescriptions, and there was a similar file at all the various doctors and clinics you visited. Nowadays, many of those records—along with doctors’ notes—are being offered online, with hospitals and companies…
Information Overload?
Do in-home genetic testing kits and body scans give us useful information about our health?
!–paging_filter–pMany of us are compelled, at one point or another, to do a little self-diagnosis when something—an itch here or a pang there—comes up. (WebMD is possibly the bane of many a doc’s existence.) Fortunately or unfortunately, there are more than a few ways to feed our need for self-diagnosis in the health realm, among…
Celebrate Seattle’s Beautiful Old Architecture with Historic Seattle
!–paging_filter–pCelebrate the urge to preserve our city’s built heritage at a href=”http://historicseattle.org“Historic Seattle/a’s strongSixth Annual/strong strongPreservation Awards /strongonstrongnbsp;/strongMay 13, 5:30–8 p.m., at the Good Shepherd Center (Wallingford, 4649 Sunnyside Ave. N)./ppTickets are $85 for the general public, $75 for Historic Seattle members and $30 for students ($25 of the fee is tax-deductible and benefits the…
Genetic Gifts
The biotech pioneer on improving science education and creating unprecedented health research
!–paging_filter–pYou need introduce just a hint of a topic to Dr. Lee Hood to get him talking—and you had better be ready to keep up once he does. The National Medal of Science recipient (2011), inventor of the DNA sequencer and co-founder of 15 different biotech companies, including Amgen, has been on the leading edge…
Quit Smoking
!–paging_filter–pYes, there’s an app for that too—smokers who prefer gadgets to patches in their quest to quit the habit can reach for their own smartphones and try out any number of apps claiming to help the cause; but one local company is entering the market backed by Fred Hutch research that proves it can work….
Goal Keeping
Pacific Medical Center Sports Medicine Doctor Chris Maeda talks fitness trackers
!–paging_filter–pExtremely popular wearable fitness trackers such as Fitbit, Nike Fuelband and the Jawbone Up count your burned calories, measure your heart rate, follow your footsteps and plot your sleep habits. Such tracking can be beneficial to keeping on top of your weight loss or fitness goals, say researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, who…
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