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2025 UW Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Winners
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How doctors are using AI to diagnose a hidden heart condition in kids
Chris Longenecker, associate professor of global health and director of the Global Cardiovascular Health Program (GCHP), is quoted. Tags: Chris Longenecker
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Q&A with Colin Baynes
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Extreme heat is taking a bigger toll than we thought
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Fifth National Climate Assessment shows what the Northwest can expect without climate action
On Nov. 14, the Biden Administration released the Fifth National Climate Assessment (NCA) detailing how climate change is affecting the United States and how institutions and communities are responding. The report, mandated every four years, is...
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VIDEO: Protecting Public Health and Vulnerable Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic (Q&A Panel)
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Smoking and other risk factors cause almost half of cancer deaths, study finds
Smoking, drinking alcohol, being overweight and other known risk factors were responsible for nearly 4.45 million cancer deaths around the world in 2019, new research suggests. The new study is the first to estimate how a list of 34 risk factors...
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Is COVID a Common Cold Yet?
At the start of the coronavirus pandemic, one of the worst things about SARS-CoV-2 was that it was so new: The world lacked immunity, treatments and vaccines. A strange new virus was colliding with people’s bodies in such unusual ways that it couldn’t...
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Promotion of COVID-19 Vaccination in Emergency Department (PROCOVAXED)
The aim of this research is to increase COVID-19 and influenza vaccine acceptance and uptake in vulnerable populations whose primary access to health occurs in emergency departments (ED). We will use qualitative methods to develop standardized messaging...
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The immune system may struggle to handle hotter summer temperatures
Heat seems to trigger a sweep of changes in immune system molecules, although researchers disagree on what they might mean. ...