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Lancet report goal: Halve premature mortality by 2050
A report published this month in The Lancet focuses on a global concern: premature death. It argues, optimistically, that countries can cut their populations’ risk of premature death in half by 2050, if they choose. A UW Medicine coauthor gives context...
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Simplifying HIV Treatment and Monitoring (STREAM2): Point-of-Care Urine Tenofovir Adherence and Viral Load Testing to Improve HIV Outcomes in South Africa
The goal of this project is to assess men’s barriers and motivators to clinic linkage after HIV self testing and pilot-test a feasible and scalable intervention to increase men’s linkage to HIV treatment and prevention; this intervention will be...
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Funding for Fieldwork for Students & Trainees: Deadline Extended To March 30
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New Fred Hutch Program to Fast-Track Lung Cancer Research
Lung cancer is far and away the leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide. In the U.S. alone, a projected 142,000 people will die of the disease this year. ...
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Riley Zielinski
She/Her rileyez@uw.edu Year Entered: 2023 Hometown: Athens, OH Prior Degree and Institution: Ohio University, BS in Biological Sciences RESEARCH INTERESTS Host-Pathogen interactions, bacteriology
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COVID-19 reinfections on the rise as officials call for a new booster
The Washington State Department of Health has released a new report showing that COVID-19 reinfection rates are rising as the new BA.5 strain becomes the most infectious yet. ...
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Eteni Longondo (MPH, 2005) Named Head of Ministry of Public Health in DRC
Dr. Eteni Longondo (MPH, 2005) has been appointed head of the Ministry of Public Health in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). After studying medicine at the University of Kinshasa in his native DRC, Longondo received a Master of Public Health from...
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U.S. Heat Deaths Will Soar as the Climate Crisis Worsens
With three degrees Celsius of warming, U.S. deaths during extreme temperatures could reach 63,000 a year, researchers calculate. ...
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Pediatric Emergency and Critical Care Kenya (PECC-Kenya)
This is a capacity building program for East African pediatricians in pediatric emergency and critical care. Primary collaborators are University of Nairobi, Department of Paediatrics and Child Health; AIC Kijabe Hospital and Seattle Children's/...
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Most Women Use Vaginal Ring for HIV Prevention in Open-Label Study
In an open-label study of women in southern and eastern Africa, a vaginal ring that is inserted once a month and slowly releases an antiviral drug was estimated to reduce the risk of HIV by 39%, according to statistical modeling. In addition, the study...