Tristan Nicholson

As wildfires grow more frequent across the U.S. and Canada, their hidden toll may extend into the fertility clinic. A new UW study suggests that wildfire smoke exposure may reduce key measures of sperm quality in patients undergoing fertility treatments. 

This new year comes with four new faculty for the UW Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences (DEOHS).They bring expertise in addressing how emerging environmental exposures and social disparities influence a broad range of health concerns, including Alzheimer’s disease and dementia, fertility, birth outcomes, vector-borne disease and microbial exposure.

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