“I had visions of working on exotic tropical diseases, such as malaria and hemorrhagic fevers,” said Dr. Holmes, who died March 9 at his home in Seattle at age 87, “but this was the most common problematic infectious disease facing the Navy at the time.”
He took a down-to-earth approach to sexually transmitted infections, a subject no one wanted to discuss, arriving at novel methods of treatment and prevention.
In studying sexually transmitted infections at a time when research on the topic was almost nonexistent in the U.S., Holmes became a world-renowned pioneer in demystifying the field. Holmes was 87 when he died Sunday in Seattle.
Healthcare workers at the University of Washington’s International Training and Education Center for Health in Zimbabwe were dismissed from their jobs shortly after executive orders pausing foreign aid.
Extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by the end of the century unless countries get better at reducing carbon pollution and adapting to hotter conditions, a new study says. University of Washington public health and climate scientist Kristie Ebi weighs in.
As of President Donald Trump’s first day back in office Monday, the United States is leaving the World Health Organization (WHO). University of Washington professor of Global Health Carey Farquhar weighs in on what this means for our country's public health.
More than 30 scientists have been named to the Clarivate Highly Cited Researchers 2024 list for work conducted over the past few years at the UW School of Medicine or the Fred Hutch Cancer Center.
Dengue fever, a potentially fatal virus spread by mosquitoes, is sweeping across the Americas, breaking records with a skyrocketing rate of infections.
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 to data showing poor U.S. progress on the metric, relative to other nations’ rates.