On Jan.19 more than 300 faculty and staff members will begin moving to the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Robert W. Day campus. The new Seattle Cancer Care Alliance outpatient clinic on the southwest corner of Eastlake Avenue East and Aloha Street will officially open Monday, Jan. 29.

Paul G. Ramsey, vice president for medical affairs and dean of the School of Medicine, last week attended a meeting in Washington, D.C., of leaders of the nation's top 10 National Institutes of Health-funded medical schools. (Full story)

Calcium channel blockers lower blood pressure, but other, less costly drugs are more effective at preventing complications from hypertension. (Full story)