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Five UW faculty members elected as AGU Fellows, plus more honors
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Faculty Receives $3 Million to Test One-Stop Locale for Women's Reproductive Health, HIV Prevention
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NewsBeat: Antiretrovirals Pose Low Risk to Nursing Mothers, Babies
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New Study Finds People Covered by Universal Health Coverage Will Fall Far Below UN Sustainable Development Goal
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Visualized: the parts of the US where summer heat has risen the most
More than a third of Americans endure summers at least 1.5C hotter than the 1895 average, analysis shows. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is quoted.
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Developing Family Medicine in Tanzania
Currently Aga Khan University has the only Family Medicine residency in Tanzania. The partners are working together as a Family Medicine Working Group to create a strong Tanzanian Family Medicine program to serve the countries needs. The Ministry of...
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Study reveals diabetic retinopathy affecting more people than previously estimated
A new study found that 9.6 million people had diabetic retinopathy in 2021, which is about 30% higher than previous research had predicted. The eye condition that can cause vision loss and blindness in people with diabetes. ...
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Dengue antigen design for a safe effective vaccine
The focus is to design a set of antigens that drive the immune response in such a way that severe secondary disease of Dengue is avoided. Severe secondary infection disease is driven by a failed antibody response in part due to the ineffectual nature of...
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Expanding and Scaling Two-way Texting to Reduce Unnecessary Follow-Up and Improve Adverse Event Identification Among Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision Clients in the Republic of South Africa
This prospective, randomized control to step-wedge trial in high-volume facilities providing VMMC in RSA in collaboration with Aurum Institute aims to test an interactive, two-way texting (2wT) intervention from Zimbabwe in the RSA rural and urban VMMC...
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David Fleming -- a Seattle Powerhouse for Global to Local
Dr. David Fleming, Director, Public Health- Seattle & King County, was named one of the "50 Most Influential People in Seattle Right Now" by Seattle Met Magazine. Dr. Fleming is on the Department's External Advisory Board and is a passionate advocate...