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MPH student Keeley Ffrench on social prescribing to improve the health impacts caused by loneliness and isolation
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‘Silent killer’: experts warn of record US deaths from extreme heat
The punishing heatwaves that have scorched much of the U.S. could result in a record number of heat-related deaths this year, experts have warned, amid a spike in hospitalizations from collapsing workers. ...
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The Community-based ART REtention and Suppression (CARES) App: an innovation to improve patient monitoring and evaluation data in community-based antiretroviral therapy programs in Lilongwe, Malawi.
This quasi-experimental, interrupted time series designed study uses implementation science methods to test an mHealth app developed to provide a high-quality, point-of-care, electronic medical records system in a routine, public, DSD setting in Malawi,...
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When Should I Take a COVID Test?
By now we all know the drill when it comes to at home rapid Covid tests. You swab, you swirl, drip a few drops and wait 15 min. ...
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They Thought This HIV Strategy Couldn't Work. But It Did
In high-income countries like the U.S., the standard of care for people infected by HIV is to provide antiretroviral pills when the virus is found, even when there are no symptoms of AIDS. The strategy staves off the disease and has a second – big –...
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UW Medicine’s Primary Care, Family and Rural Medicine Programs Lead National Rankings
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The Seattle Science that Led to FDA Approval of HIV-Prevention Drug
The FDA approved the first drug, known as Truvada, for preventing HIV in people at high risk of infection due to ‘discordance’ – science lingo for being HIV negative but having a sex partner who is HIV positive. Seattle scientists, as Tom Paulson ...
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The Childhood Acute Illness and Nutrition (CHAIN) Consortium
Many acutely ill children in low- and middle-income settings have a high risk of mortality both during and after hospitalisation despite guideline-based care. Understanding the biological mechanisms underpinning mortality may suggest optimal pathways to...
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State-of-the-Art Laboratory Launched in Ethiopia
On June 16, the newly renovated, state-of-the-art laboratory at Debre-Berhan Referral Hospital was launched. It is the first referral hospital lab in the country that can accommodate high-standard, quality laboratory technologies and services which will...
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Mame Mareme Diakhate
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