Humans could lose up to two weeks of sleep a year by the end of the century, study finds.

Jennifer Whitehair, MD, an associate clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, received the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Outstanding American Indian/Alaska Native Women’s Healthcare Clinician Award.

The College of Medicine – Phoenix’s new psychiatry chair sees great potential in research and music to provide precision solutions to aid mental health.

Suicide attempts among preteens are on the rise nationwide and in southern Arizona. Steven Dudley, PharmD, DABAT, director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, said his office has noticed an increase in intentional overdoses that spiked during the pandemic.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, professor of epidemiology in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, head of the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Immunobiology, are quoted in an article about long COVID.

A review by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences concluded (with the caveat that there's much more research to be done) that terpenes may be highly effective in developing pain medications, especially because they are safer than traditional painkillers.

Scientists are keeping an eye on monkeypox, a viral disease related to smallpox that has recently been found spreading in North America, Europe and Australia.