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Study connects climate hazards to 58% of infectious diseases
Climate hazards such as flooding, heat waves and drought have worsened more than half of the hundreds of known infectious diseases in people, including malaria, hantavirus, cholera and anthrax, a study says. ...
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Join Us For the Global Health: Next Decade, Next Generation Symposium
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Monkeypox outbreak is a reminder that viruses won't stop surprising us
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, you probably didn't expect to be talking quite so much about monkeypox — or to see that an outbreak of the virus, which normally circulates in west and central Africa, would spread to 18 people in nine U.S. states...
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Air Pollution Exposures in Early Life and Brain Development in Children
This project will establish a prospective mother-infant cohort for studies on neurotoxicant exposures and child neurodevelopmental outcomes, and will develop capacity building to understand early life air pollution sources (using mobile monitoring and...
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Why Asia’s early heat wave is so alarming
Climate change is making a safe, slow adjustment to heat much harder by upending what we’d typically expect as seasons change. Summers are getting longer and more intense, encroaching on winter and extending long into the fall. Large parts of Asia have...
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Traumatic Brain Injury Study in Latin America
In a study published Dec. 12 in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers at UW working with colleagues at six hospitals in Bolivia and Ecuador. found that intracranial pressure monitoring – the standard of care for severe traumatic brain injury...
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Ancient DNA offers new evidence in long-standing syphilis theory
The origins of syphilis — a sexually transmitted infection that devastated 15th century Europe and is still prevalent today — have remained murky, difficult to study and the subject of some debate. ...
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Heat is the deadliest form of extreme weather. Why are fatalities so hard to track?
As summer begins in the United States, some local officials and health experts are sounding the alarm about the dangers of extreme heat, whose effects can be deadly but hard to trace. Kristie Ebi, professor of global health and of environmental and...
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Climate change is pushing hospitals to tipping point
When an unprecedented heat wave baked the Pacific Northwest last July, emergency rooms sought any way possible to lower the core body temperatures of patients coming in droves with heat-related ailments. Many emergency departments in the region began...
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Connie Celum Honored with Achievement Award
In recognition of her contributions to science, Dr. Connie Celum, UW professor of global health and medicine and adjunct professor of epidemiology, was selected for the American Sexually Transmitted Diseases Association (ASTDA) Achievement Award. The...