The Southern Arizona chapter of the Public Relations Society of America unveiled its winners for this year’s IMPACT Awards for Excellence in Public Relations. The Health Sciences Office of Communications won awards in the categories of general marketing campaign, internal communications and social media communications.

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Research has shown that female athletes tend to suffer injuries at higher rates than male athletes, due in part to a lack of female-focused sports medicine research.

In a study led by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers, about half of the participants said they would rather have a human – not artificial intelligence – oversee their diagnosis and treatment.

The MPACT study will develop and test a medical intervention to address critical gaps in current methadone maintenance treatment for opioid use disorder.

A $10 million Environmental Protection Agency grant is funding the Western Environmental Science Technical Assistance Center for Environmental Justice, or the WEST EJ Center.

Arizona Cannabis Education, or AzCANN, is a project funded by a $1 million grant from the Arizona Department of Health Services that the Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center at UArizona Health Sciences is using to develop educational materials on the responsible use and potential risks of cannabis.

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A $13 million NIH grant will help researchers learn more about how to rejuvenate the immune system by researching how T cells are created and maintained.