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UW profs push for a ‘NATO’ defense pact — against our own government
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Hospitals in Coastal Cities Risk Flooding Even in ‘Weak’ Hurricanes, Study Finds
In a large proportion of the metropolitan areas along the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, at least half of the hospitals are at risk of flooding even from relatively weak hurricanes, a new study found. ...
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Mask Mandates Are Returning to Schools as COVID-19 Cases Surge
On April 11, public schools in Providence, R.I, made face masks optional instead of mandatory for students and teachers—celebrating the move as a “positive milestone” brought about by declining COVID-19 cases among students and community support for a...
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Navigating Hurricane Beryl in Jamaica
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A cough away from clarity — UW researchers are developing new app to differentiate respiratory disease
UW Medicine doctors and University of Washington engineers are on a mission to provide answers by developing a smartphone app designed to distinguish COVID-19 coughs, for instance, from other respiratory illnesses. Dr. Thomas Hawn, adjunct professor of...
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Kris Ebi Presents at WHO Conference on Health and Climate
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Defining the protective efficacy of antibodies against the EBV gH/gL glycoprotein complex
Uses various animal models to evaluate the ability of neutralizing antibodies to protect against EBV infection. ...
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New York Times: Life Expectancy Falls by 5 Years for Syrian Men, New Analysis Finds
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Syphilis microbe’s family has plagued humans for millennia
Ancient DNA recovered from Brazilian remains shows that treponemal diseases originated some 10,000 years earlier than previously thought. ...
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Tumor-specific autoantibodies for SCLC early detection
This project proposes to leverage molecular features unique to SCLC, such as the development of autoantibodies, to validate a plasma biomarker panel capable of SCLC early detection to allow for early initiation of potentially curative chemotherapy. NIH...