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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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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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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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KUOW Debate: Will the GOP Healthcare Bill Hurt or Help Washington State?
Bill Radke talks with Aaron Katz, who teaches health policy the University of Washington School of Public Health, and retired physician Roger Stark, a healthcare analyst for the Washington Policy Center. ...
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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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Fact check: Vaccines can't be sprayed in 'chemtrails,' scientists say
The inhaled vaccine technology being developed at Yale cannot be sprayed from the sky in a “chemtrail,” as a social media post suggests. Inhaled vaccines require measured doses delivered directly into the nose. Experts agreed spraying a vaccine from...
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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...
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Guy H. Palmer
External Advisory Board Member, Department of Global Health, University of Washington ...
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New Heat Map Shows Scorching Streets that Can Burn Skin in Seconds
Under the scorching summer sun, pavement can reach temperatures hot enough to cause second-degree burns. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted. ...