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Harborview Medical Center made the list, but didn t secure the top spot. (Shutterstock / Stephen Griffith)
WASHINGTON Eight of Washington s hospitals are among the best in the nation, according to a new ranking by Newsweek.
The magazine s World s Best Hospitals list for 2021 ranked the top hospitals around the world, including in the United States. It s the third year Newsweek has published the list, for which it partnered with the data firm Statista.
Five Washington hospitals ranked among the top 200 in the U.S., while another three hospitals were included in the overall list but did not rank among the top 200.
UVC light being used in public spaces to clean air, surfaces of COVID-19
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Safely reopening Americaâs schools remains a big discussion.
Many creative cleaning solutions have come out of the pandemic, and now some schools are using a technology more commonly associated with hospitals.
âWhen this light is hitting things like, say, surfaces where there s viruses or bacteria or anything like that, it penetrates through the outside of the bacteria or virus to the inner portions. It keeps it from replicating, basically destroys it inside so it s no longer infectious,â Staci Kvak, health care epidemiologist at the University of Washington Medical Center, said.
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The COVID-19 vaccine brings optimism at a bleak time, but post-vaccination fears about what’s safe persist By Ryan Blethen, The Seattle Times
Published: February 21, 2021, 12:44pm
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3 Photos To reach her mother s second-floor room, Abby Rosenblum visits during COVID by using the bed of a pickup truck parked alongside the building. (Alan Berner/Seattle Times/TNS) Photo Gallery
SEATTLE The coronavirus pandemic has stolen a precious year from Abby Rosenblum and her mother.
After the adult family home in Seattle’s Blue Ridge neighborhood where her 87-year-old mother, Anne Adams, lives barred visitors last spring because of COVID-19, Rosenblum relied on the bed of a pickup truck to get to a high enough point from where she could see her mother through a window.
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Startup Ozette unveils AI approach to understanding the immune system
Ozette applies artificial intelligence to immune monitoring to gain greater insight into a cancer patient s immune system. Beyond informing treatment decisions, the technology can guide drug and diagnostic development.
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Cancer patients receive a check-in to see how their immune cells are working and whether the disease is responding to treatment. This immune monitoring is a routine part of cancer care and it helps guide treatment decisions. Yet current analysis methods remain limited, according to Ali Ansary, co-founder and CEO of startup Ozette.
The Seattle-based company aims to take immune monitoring further and it is using artificial intelligence to do it. The approach could accelerate analysis of the immune system, helping clinicians make better diagnostic and treatment decisions. The technology could yield insights not only for cancer care, but also infectious disease, inflammato