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December 29, 2022
2022 Year in Review
A glimpse at the reach and impact of the department's news and our top stories of the year.
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Department of Medicine 2022 News in Review
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Most viewed Newsroom stories
Members of the Department of Medicine are included in over half (14 of 22) of the top news stories in 2022 from UW Medicine Newsroom:
- Breast cancer vaccine safely generates anti-tumor immunity (Nora Disis)
- Patients with rare skin cancer face 40% recurrence rate (Paul Nghiem)
- Viral shedding ebbs over time with HSV-1 genital infections (Christine Johnston)
- Related article: "Viral Shedding 1 Year Following First-Episode Genital HSV-1 Infection" in JAMA. Christine Johnston, lead author, Anna Wald, senior author. Co-authors: Sarah Gunby, Lichen Jing, Victoria Campbell, and David Koelle.
- In memoriam: Deborah Nickerson, genome pioneer (Mary-Claire King and Gail Jarvik are two of the co-authors who wrote this tribute)
- 2nd opinion lets ex-Husky QB bypass open heart surgery (Bill Lombardi)
- Home-based flu tests comparable to clinical testing
- Related article: "Diagnostic Accuracy of an At-Home, Rapid Self-test for Influenza: Prospective Comparative Accuracy Study" in the Journal of Medical Internet Research. Helen Chu, co-author.
- Study: ‘Mix-and-match’ booster strategy is safe, effective (Christine Johnston)
- Related article: "Homologous and Heterologous Covid-19 Booster Vaccinations" in the New England Journal of Medicine. Co-authors: Christine Johnston, Tia Babu, and Julie McElrath.
- Adding key foods to a diet will help restore gut health (Chris Damman)
- Rapid antigen tests accurately detect COVID variants (Paul Drain)
- Paxlovid? Evusheld? Discussing COVID therapeutics (Shireesha Dhannireddy)
- Butyrate in microbiome abates a host of ills, studies find (Chris Damman)
- Cardiologists are 1st to use tool to remove tumor from heart (James McCabe, Zachary Steinberg, and David Elison)
- Second-generation COVID-19 vaccine clinical trial starts (Anna Wald and Tia Babu)
- Patient receives region’s 1st DCD heart transplant (Dan Fishbein)
Most viewed Hutch News Stories
We are featured in three of the ten top-read scientific news articles published in 2022 from Hutch News:
- Testing cord blood transplants as a cure for leukemia — and HIV (Filippo Milano and Hans-Peter Kiem)
- Test of a new 'germline-targeting' HIV vaccine prepares to launch (Larry Corey and Julie McElrath)
- At Fred Hutch, a Novel Approach to Immunotherapy Is Helping Keith Lang Beat Back Merkel Cell Carcinoma (Shailender Bhatia)
Popular Huddle stories of 2022
We are featured in two of the top ten most viewed stories from the Huddle: