April 18, 2018
Women Living (and Thriving) with Autoimmune Diseases: Meet Chris Boerner
Chris Boerner was diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis when she was 14 years old. If you don’t know what that is, it’s probably one of the most unwelcome things to happen to a young girl just starting high school.
April 12, 2018
Anguish to Advocate: Making a Difference in Ulcerative Colitis Research
Awaiting a colonoscopy in a Tri-Cities, Wash., emergency room was the last place Angie Neal expected to find herself. The 33-year-old Olympia native was the epitome of health: she exercised regularly, ate healthy foods and had never been overweight.
April 5, 2018
How we Roll with type 1 diabetes
Like many people with a connection to a chronic disease, I do my best to keep up with news about trials and studies that could, just maybe, yield new preventions and treatments. Unfortunately, science does not always succeed in the traditional sense.
March 29, 2018
Let’s Talk: How to Approach Conversations on Autoimmune Diseases
Do you have a loved one who was recently diagnosed with a condition such as Type 1 Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis, or Crohn’s? Conditions like these are part of a family of 80 + diseases caused by autoimmunity, and they are often connected genetically.
March 22, 2018
Identifying and Managing Type 1 Diabetes as a Young Adult
Your early 20s are often a time of major life change. You may have just moved away from home for the first time, started college, or joined the military. Your health care or medical routine may have become unbalanced or even nonexistent.
March 14, 2018
Driving Clinical Research
Virginia Mason is currently home to more than 100 clinical studies that give patients in nearly every clinical department a chance to participate in research and access new treatments.
March 8, 2018
Women Living (And Thriving) with Autoimmune Diseases
Type 1 Diabetes doesn’t stop Michelle Peterson from a leading a fulfilling life with family and as director of communications and PR at Virginia Mason Medical Center.
March 1, 2018
Personalizing Peanut Allergy Treatment
Pioneering research on peanut allergies at Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) was recently fueled by a $5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to accelerate discovery of treatments.
February 27, 2018
Testing a New MS Therapy
Last winter, Elena Connors commuted over treacherous roads from Richland to Walla Walla for a job as a Russian language interpreter.
February 21, 2018
Heidner Grant Funds Lupus Discovery
Lupus is one of the most difficult autoimmune diseases to diagnose and treat. Clinicians and researchers at Virginia Mason and Benaroya Research Institute at Virginia Mason (BRI) are leaders in looking for causes and cures of the disease.
