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Mind the Gap: The Burden of HIV Among Racial and Ethnic Minority Groups and Their Participation in Preventive HIV Vaccine Clinical Trials
An analysis conducted by the HIV Vaccine Trials Network (HVTN) observed an overall increase in the proportion of racial and ethnic minorities enrolled in Phase 1 and Phase 2A preventive HIV vaccine clinical trials in the United States between 2002 and...
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KUOW Debate: Will the GOP Healthcare Bill Hurt or Help Washington State?
Bill Radke talks with Aaron Katz, who teaches health policy the University of Washington School of Public Health, and retired physician Roger Stark, a healthcare analyst for the Washington Policy Center. ...
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Translating Autoantibodies into Chimeric Antigen Receptor-T Cell Therapy for Small Cell Lung Cancer
The goal of this project is to translate tumor-specific autoantibodies into novel CAR-T cells, to test their efficacy in multiple clinically relevant SCLC models and to identify and overcome immunosuppressive mechanisms. ...
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The Republican Plan to Reform the Census Could Put Everyone’s Privacy at Risk
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Call For Nominations: Department of Global Health (DGH) Alumni Early Achievement Award 2017
2015 DGH Graduates on steps ...
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‘The cruelty Olympics’: Texas workers condemn elimination of water breaks
Outdoor workers express anger and fear of potential repercussions after governor rescinds mandatory breaks amid extreme heat. ...
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Bicycles and HIV Prevention in Malawi
In Malawi, International Training & Education Center for Health (I-TECH) utilizes Community Mobilizers (CMs), who use interpersonal communication to create demand among males needing Voluntary Medical Male Circumcision services. In order to ease the...
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Huffington Post: We Can Expect More Outbreaks Like Zika As The Climate Changes
By Lydia O'Connor ...
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A slight temperature drop makes Tuesday the world's second-hottest day
Global temperatures dropped a minuscule amount after two days of record highs, making Tuesday only the world’s second-hottest day ever measured. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and occupational health sciences at the UW, is...
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Acceptability of Sustained-Release Antiretrovirals for Treatment in the US and sub-Saharan Africa
Aims are to inform product development with a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to identify product preferences and identify patient characteristics associated with acceptability among 200 ART naïve-individuals and 500 ART-experienced individuals in...