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Seattle startup HDT Bio lands $1.8M U.S. Army grant to develop nasal spray against viruses
Seattle startup HDT Bio will develop a nasal spray designed to counteract a wide range of respiratory viruses with a nearly $1.8 million grant from the U.S. Army. ...
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Tissue resident memory response to VZV infection
This NIH R01 lab science project determines the signature of VZV-specific T cells left in skin after recovery from shingles and determines if the recombinant zoster vaccine leads to an increase in skin-resident VZV-specific T cells. ...
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UW Study Offers Real-Time Testing For Flu Virus (KOMO News - Features Helen Chu)
Only 10-20% of people with flu-like symptoms actually have the influenza virus. But a new study in Seattle will offer real time testing of the flu this year promising results in less than 30 minutes. ...
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Washington Tuberculosis Expert Receives Local Public Health Award
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Five Ways Climate Change Impacts Health — and How Clinicians Can Mitigate its Effect (Healio - Features Jeremy Hess)
Although the link between climate change and health is “becoming increasingly clear,” the medical community is generally unaware of how much climate change is impacting patients today, experts told Healio Primary Care. ...
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PrEParing family planning clinics in Kenya to prevent new HIV infections
In sub-Saharan Africa, many young women and adolescent girls are at high risk of HIV infection. In a new research paper published in the open access journal PLOS Medicine , Kenneth Mugwanya and co-authors report on a study aiming to investigate the...
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Sean Galagan
Senior Data Manager, Global WACh ...
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New Computer Model Predicts Where Ebola Might Strike Next
Predicting where Ebola might strike next could become easier, thanks to a new computer model. The model tracks how changes in the environment and in human societies could affect the deadly virus’s spread. It predicts that Ebola outbreaks could become as...
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Clive Anderson
Clinical Associate Professor, Global Health ...
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Vivek Ramaswamy says ‘hoax’ agenda kills more people than climate change
Many have interpreted Vivek Ramaswamy’s comment that the “climate change agenda is a hoax” as a flat statement that climate change is a hoax. No matter how you slice it, credible research has concluded that thousands of people a year die because of the...