By Brad Plumer / The New York Times
Carbon dioxide helps plants grow. But a new study shows that rice grown in higher levels of carbon dioxide has lower amounts of several important nutrients.
By Tom Calver and Nassos Stylianou / BBC News
Women outlive men in 195 countries and in Russia they do so by 11 years. Ethiopians are living 19 years longer than in 1990 and people in the countries with the highest life expectancy live a staggering 34 years longer than those with the lowest.
By Nicole Karlis / Salon
According to the Centers for Disease Control monthly report, vector-borne diseases have nearly tripled since 2004.
Mosquito and tick-borne diseases are on the rise in the United States. That’s according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, who has issued its monthly Vital Signs report just in time for summer 2018.
The Economist makes a strong case for universal health care and many global health priorities in this special report. The report highlights the work of a number of UW Department of Global Health faculty and staff, including the Disease Control Priorities 3rd edition (DCP3) and IHME’s Global Burden of Disease study (GBD).
By IHME
An estimated 5.4 billion people globally are expected to be covered under some form of universal health care (UHC) by 2030, up from 4.3 billion in 2015, but far below the related target in United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 3, according to a new scientific study.
By Jacqueline Howard / CNN
There's no question that the impact of diseases varies drastically across the United States, depending on which state you live in.
By Steven Ross Johnson / Modern Healthcare
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.
By Sabrina Richards / Fred Hutch News Service
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.