March 27, 2018 | Health News
U.S. Deaths from Infectious Diseases Decline, but Not Everywhere
By Steven Ross Johnson / Modern Healthcare
March 06, 2018 | Health News
Women's Use of Vaginal Ring is Higher in Open-label Study, as is Level of HIV Protection
By EurekAlert!
Midway into a study in which all participants are offered use of a monthly vaginal ring containing an antiretroviral (ARV) drug called dapivirine, researchers have seen women's risk of acquiring HIV reduced by more than half.
March 05, 2018 | Health News
HIV Researcher Dr. Julie Overbaugh Gives Bernard Fields Lecture at CROI
By Sabrina Richards / Fred Hutch News Service
February 15, 2018 | Health News
UW Students Reflect on Equity, Race, and Global Health with Paul Farmer
Dr. Paul Farmer, global health and human rights activist, founder of the nonprofit Partners in Health, and a Harvard anthropologist and medical professor, was recently in Seattle and took time out for a two-hour open Q&A session with UW students that centered on equity as the key to global health.
February 15, 2018 | Health News
Improving Survival Rate of Malnourished Children Critical – Researchers Say
By Agnes Kyotalengerire / New Vision
The three-day meeting attracted investigators from the six collaborating countries of Kenya, Malawi, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh and Pakistan who admit malnourished children, follow them through hospitalization and then six months after.
January 30, 2018 | Health News
Amazon Joins with Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan to Form Health-care Company
By Matt Day / The Seattle Times
The three U.S. corporate giants say their new venture will work to improve employee care and lower costs "free from profit-making incentives and constraints."
Amazon — thought for years to be weighing an entry into health care — landed there with an unexpected splash Tuesday, revealing plans to form a joint venture with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase that’s charged with lowering the cost of caring for employees.
January 26, 2018 | Health News
Do Certain Vaginal Bacteria Hike Women's Risk of Acquiring HIV?
By Molly Walker / MedPage Today
Certain types of vaginal bacteria were associated with an increased risk of HIV infection among women, a nested case-control study of African women found.
January 26, 2018 | Health News
Seven Takeaways from Davos
By Clinton Leaf / Fortune
The 2018 World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, just wrapped up a short time ago. Here are a few things I learned over the past week during this gathering of globally minded leaders, thinkers, builders, connectors, and teachers.
January 18, 2018 | Health News
An STI That You Probably Don't Even Know about Is Becoming Common and Resistant to Medications
By Melissa Matthews / Newsweek
You’ve likely never heard of, or been tested for it, but a sexually transmitted infection that’s fairly common could now be resistant to antibiotic medications. Mycoplasma genitalium, or MG, is not a new bacteria and was first identified in the 1980s. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is more common than gonorrhea and chlamydia, though it's not as easily recognized as the other two.
January 02, 2018 | Health News
‘I just wanted off the plane’: Sexual Assaults Often Unreported by Airlines, so UW Alumni Starts Campaign
Sexual assault of women on commercial flights happens regularly, yet victims often receive minimal support from airline staff and there are few prosecutions of perpetrators. Allison Dvaladze, a graduate of UW's Department of Global Health Master of Public Health (MPH) program, was sexually assaulted on a Delta flight from Seattle to Amsterdam in 2016 and since then has mounted a one-woman campaign to bring attention to what she soon realized is a recurring problem, and to push for some way to address it.