Navy hospital ship joined with VA hospitals to give veterans checkups
Outside shot of USNS Mercy docked at Pier 91 in Seattle. The ship is as long as three US football fieds. (Full Story)
Photo by Leila Gray
Acosta named assistant dean for multicultural affairs
Tacoma family physician David A. Acosta has been named assistant dean for multicultural affairs at the UW School of Medicine. (Full Story)
Research data lost in robbery
Former chair of microbiology Jim Mullins is safe after being forced to hand over his satchel Aug. 4 by seven knife-wielding teenagers outside an AIDS and HIV conference in Durban, South Africa. (Full Story)
Mom gives birth after head-on crash
A woman injured July 30 in a head-on collision in downtown Seattle gave birth by emergency Caesarean section at Harborview Medical Center shortly after firefighters extricated her from her crumpled van. (Full Story)
August 8, 2003