Climate change is associated with more frequent and severe wildfires, extreme weather events, droughts and pollution — all of which impact our food, water, air and overall well-being.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
An outbreak of bird flu has spread to harbor seals off the coast of Washington in the first documented instance of marine mammals dying from the disease on the West Coast.
Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
They might be fun to look at, but experts want you to keep your distance from harbor seals in the Puget Sound region. This warning comes after a worldwide outbreak of H5N1 avian influenza jumped to local harbor seals.
Dr. Peter Rabinowitz, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
As deadly heat waves become more common, researchers are studying what people can tolerate.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
Guidelines for using an antibiotic morning-after pill to curb sexually transmitted infections are on the horizon, as US health officials plan to endorse the proposed regulations.
Dr. Connie Celum, professor of global health and of medicine at the UW, is quoted.
Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, says the federal government needs to dramatically increase money to fund research on how climate change impacts health.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is proposing a new policy aimed at dramatically reducing sexually transmitted infections in the U.S.
Dr. Connie Celum, professor of global health and of medicine at the UW, is quoted.
With three degrees Celsius of warming, U.S. deaths during extreme temperatures could reach 63,000 a year, researchers calculate.
Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
A poor community in India lost power during a heat wave, unlike the luxury mall next door. What happened next exposed extreme heat’s unequal toll. Dr. Jeremy Hess, professor of global health, of emergency medicine and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is referenced.
Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true. Sheila Lukehart, professor emeritus of global health and medicine at the UW, is quoted.