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Metabolic surgery may help those with Type 2 Diabetes

KING5 News Author: William Abeyta, Amity Addrisi Published: 6:13 PM PDT July 25, 2019 Less than one percent of those who qualify for metabolic surgery for Type 2 Diabetes get help. Roughly 30 million people…

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U.S. News: UW Medical Center state’s best for 8th year

UW Medicine | Newsroom | July 30, 2019   UW Medicine’s rehabilitation medicine and diabetes/endocrinology services ranked in the nation’s top 10.   University of Washington Medical Center in Seattle, part of UW Medicine, has once…

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Patient with bile duct cancer receives rare transplant

UW Medicine | Newsroom | July 8, 2019 The procedure aims to cure aggressive disease with a donor liver. UW Medicine’s transplant team has successfully performed a rare liver transplant to rid a patient of…

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