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Creating a mobile app that tests lung capacity

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People suffering from lung diseases in developing worlds often do not have a good way to track lung functioning without visiting the doctor. Through the work of UW researchers, many may soon be able to measure their lung function simply by blowing into any type of phone after SpiroCall, a new health sensing tool, was found to meet the medical community’s standard for accuracy. With this proof of concept in hand, the research team can now plan for additional data…

Skies Over Seattle: Connecting the campus and surrounding community

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What does it mean to be homeless in the U-District? Drama students created Skies Over Seattle, original theater pieces inspired by the intersection of volunteerism and artistic creation in pursuit of understanding that question. Graduate students in acting, design and directing, as well as several undergraduates, volunteered for three community organizations that serve the homeless around the UW’s Seattle campus. Over the course of a year, their lessons learned and questions asked inspired the students to write, design, and perform…

Developing a long-acting antiretroviral treatment for HIV

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Current oral drug therapies for HIV can greatly reduce the presence of the virus in the blood stream. However, limitations prevent these therapies from reducing the presence of HIV in the tissues of a body, and to work in the blood stream, patients must strictly adhere to daily dosing regimens for the rest of their lives. To address these shortcomings, pharmacy professor Rodney JY Ho and medicine professor Ann Collier have partnered to develop a new, seven-day long-lasting HIV therapy…

Finding connections to nature in cities is key to healthy urban living

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Those who live in cities are increasingly “numb” to the natural world and its important connections for our health. UW researcher Peter Kahn says that city dwellers are unaware of how we’re undermining our connection to nature, putting our own health and the survival of wildlife and wild areas at higher risk of loss from inaction on environmental problems. Kahn coauthored a new book that explores how “environmental generational amnesia” is due in part to a shift in each generation…