Punishing heat is a fact of life inside America’s prisons without air conditioning, and it is taking a serious toll on prisoners’ mental health. When the outside thermometer hits 90 degrees Fahrenheit or more, a new study shows that prison suicide risk jumps 36%, in comparison to when temperatures are in the 60s.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

As rates of sexually transmitted infections continue to skyrocket across the U.S., a growing number of physicians are prescribing a commonly used antibiotic as a way to prevent chlamydia, gonorrhea and syphilis infections in gay and bisexual men and transgender women.

Connie Celum, professor of global health and of medicine at the UW, is quoted.

July 2023 was the hottest month ever recorded. It could even be the hottest month in human history. And it’s just one in a chain of broken heat records.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.

An 80-plus-degree day is not sizzling by Phoenix standards. It wasn’t even high enough to trigger an official heat warning for the wider public. But research has shown that those temperatures, coming so early in June, would drive up the number of heat-related hospital visits and deaths across the Boston region.

Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.