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Robert H. Muilenburg, a nationally recognized leader in health-care administration who had been at the helm of 91̽»¨ Medical Center since 1978, died Wednesday (Sept. 20) at his Seattle home. He had been diagnosed with brain cancer several months ago.

A thorough study suggests there is little or no connection between periodontal disease and risk of coronary heart disease, according to researchers at the 91̽»¨ School of Dentistry.

Sudden cardiac arrest remains the No. 1 killer of adults in the United States. Coronary artery disease will kill 250,000 or more people this year. One way to reduce the numbers of these deaths dramatically is to make automatic external defibrillators, or AEDs, widely available for home use, said Dr. Mickey Eisenberg.

When it comes to love and sex, one size definitely doesn’t fit all.

Can the extract of the leaves of the Ginkgo biloba tree prevent or delay memory loss and personality changes associated with aging? Scientists at the 91̽»¨ will analyze data being collected nationwide in a $15 million National Institutes of Health study of ginkgo.

A small earthquake off the coast of Washington that caused hydrothermal vent systems miles away to pump out substantially warmer water at 10 times the rate and in an unexpected pulsing pattern has seafloor geologists questioning long-held assumptions about how fluid circulates within oceanic crust.

If David Allstot and his 91̽»¨ colleagues have their way, a few years from now you may find yourself talking to the Internet through your wristwatch.

A Magic Book looks like a traditional book – it has text and colorful pictures. But look at it through a lightweight viewer and moving, three-dimensional images jump off the page.

“Rats” the subliminal political commercial will never rival “Cats” for longevity, but it may prove to be one long bad memory for the national Republican Party, according to a 91̽»¨ researcher who was among the first to show that subliminal visual messages can influence human thought processes and decision-making.

Dr. Douglas S. Paauw, associate professor of medicine in the Division of General Internal Medicine at the 91̽»¨, has been appointed as the first holder of the Rathmann Family Foundation Endowed Chair in Patient-Centered Clinical Education.

Gifts to the 91̽»¨ in 1999-2000 surged by more than 30% to a record total of $134,038,997. The previous year’s total was $102,925,052.

As many of the world’s leading female athletes descend on the Olympic Games in Sydney, the 91̽»¨ School of Medicine is establishing what may be the nation’s first endowed chair dedicated solely to the study of women’s sports medicine and lifetime fitness.

Researchers studying the state of American marriages now can predict not only which couples will divorce but also when they will divorce.

All kidding aside, Web sites that make fun of the presidential contenders do an effective job of educating ? as well as amusing ? a growing segment of the electorate, according to a new 91̽»¨ study.

The greatest mass extinction in Earth history eliminated 85 percent to 90 percent of all marine and land vertebrate species 250 million years ago, at the end of the Permian Period and the beginning of the Triassic. New evidence from researchers at the 91̽»¨ and the South African Museum shows the extinction was accompanied by a massive loss of vegetation, causing major changes in river systems.

A statewide program designed to involve elementary through high school students in math, science and engineering has won a presidential award for mentoring, White House officials announced today.

Key environmental health concerns for Washington will be aired at a town meeting Sept. 29 and 30 in Seattle.

The Institute for K-12 Leadership at the 91̽»¨ announced today that it has received $5,760,000 from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to create small model secondary schools in eight urban school districts across the nation.

The 91̽»¨ School of Medicine is opening a state-of-the-art laboratory to explore the cutting edge of medicine’s future: gene and cell therapy.

Professor David Notkin, an internationally recognized expert in software engineering, will become the new chairman of the 91̽»¨â€™s nationally ranked Department of Computer Science & Engineering tomorrow when current chairman Ed Lazowska steps down after leading the department for eight years.

Scientists have completed mapping the genome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the largest bacterium sequenced so far, which may lead to potential new treatments for patients with cystic fibrosis (CF), patients with severe burns and others who develop this type of infection.

The family environment that children grow up in can have long-lasting effects on whether they smoke, according to a new study by 91̽»¨ researchers who used data collected over a 35-year time span.

Up to 85,000 unnecessary heart attacks and cases of heart failure may occur worldwide every year among the estimated 28 million users of longer-acting calcium channel blockers (CCBs), a class of drugs used to treat high blood pressure, according to the results of a study reported Monday at the European Society of Cardiology meeting in Amsterdam.

Teachers Beverly Mowrer of Sedro-Woolley High School, Cynthia Maldonado of Kelso’s Cornerstone Christian Community School, Robert Mize of Steilacoom Historical School and Misty Nikula-Ohlsen of Bellingham’s Whatcom Day Academy will sail Sept. 1 to 19 with scientists who are seeking information about the rugged, volcanically active areas on the seafloor 200 miles off the Washington coast.

Transcontinental business travelers could be singing in the shower rather than enduring the weary griminess that marks the end of globe-hopping flights if Dan Brunton has his way.

Computer professionals at the 91̽»¨ will get hands-on training in Internet security on Thursday when a couple of teen-age cyber aficionados attempt to hack digital safeguards set up by the university.

Despite contemporary Russia’s serious troubles, its founding father, Boris Yeltsin, will be portrayed in an unexpectedly sympathetic light when public television profiles the former Russian president in a 90-minute nationwide special on Aug. 28.

The Washington Research Foundation has made a $250,000 grant to the 91̽»¨ School of Medicine’s Cell Systems Initiative (CSI).

Computer scientists, mathematicians and architects will join artists, musicians, writers and poets on the 91̽»¨ campus next week to explore the junctures where their disciplines overlap – zones that have helped revolutionize art in the past and promise to take creative endeavors in new directions in the future.

A researcher at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture at the 91̽»¨ and a Japanese colleague have found similarities in bone structure suggesting that birds did, in fact, evolve from a group of dinosaurs.

About 1,000 seventh- through 12th-grade students will spend a week on the 91̽»¨ campus Aug. 14-18 as part of an innovative program to increase the number of low-income students who go to college.

Teachers Diane Nielsen of Mercer Island High School, Tom Lee of Battleground’s Columbia Adventist Academy, Evan Justin of Vashon Island Middle School and Melissa Cohen of Seattle’s Meany Middle School are among the teachers sailing Aug. 3 to 21 aboard the 91̽»¨’s vessel the Thomas G. Thompson seeking information about the rugged, volcanically active areas on the seafloor 200 miles off the Washington coast.

An international team including scientists from the 91̽»¨ has mapped the first crystal structure of a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR), one of a family of proteins that are crucial to everything from vision to the development of the human embryo, according to a paper published in the Aug. 4 issue of Science.

Nancy L. Wells, currently associate vice president and director of university development at Stanford University, has been named vice president for development and alumni relations at the 91̽»¨ by 91̽»¨President Richard L. McCormick.

More than 40 high school students with disabilities from Washington and Oregon will gather at the 91̽»¨campus in Seattle for the summer study sessions of the Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking and Technology (DO-IT) Program. DO-IT is an award-winning program intended to show the students how to develop the skills needed to enter a college and succeed in a university setting.

The 91̽»¨ is launching the nation’s first doctoral degree program in nanotechnology, an undertaking designed to prepare students as leaders in a world in which engineering the very small will soon become big business.

Where art and technology meet, you’ll find David Salesin. The 91̽»¨ associate professor of Computer Science & Engineering and senior researcher at Microsoft Corp. has been expanding what’s possible at that juncture for more than a decade, bringing techniques from the fine arts to the computer screen.

91̽»¨ researchers trying to come up with more effective treatments for depression, America’s most common mental health problem, are looking for 200 Puget Sound residents to volunteer for a new study

Sharon Nelson, chairwoman of the state Utilities and Transportation Commission from 1985 to 1997, has been named the first director of the 91̽»¨ Law School’s Center for Law, Commerce and Technology.