Photobiomodulation therapy has been an FDA-approved treatment for inflammation and pain since 2011. KEY TAKEAWAYS The first U.S. coronavirus disease 2019 patient with lung injury treated with photobiomodulation therapy experienced improved respiratory indices, radiological findings, and oxygen requirements. A pair of critical care experts are skeptical about the laser treatment and say much more research […]

Scott Sigman, MD, fellow, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, is an orthopedic surgeon who is the first to tell you he did not expect to be on the front lines of the COVID-19 crisis. Yet he became the principal investigator for a case involving a patient with severe COVID-19 who developed pneumonia. In the early […]

Leen Kawas is truly a unicorn. The 35-year-old co-founder and CEO of Seattle biotechnology company Athira Pharma would be the first woman to guide a company to an initial public offering in Washington state in more than two decades. Let that sink in for a moment. For more than 20 years, a Washington woman has […]