College of Medicine – Tucson Class of 2024 medical students will receive their white coats on Feb. 25.

Even as they take a moment to celebrate their successes over the past 65 years, the College of Nursing looks to the future with the launch of a Certified Nurse Midwifery program.

Opinion piece by Geoffrey Boyce, PhD, academic director of the Earlham College Border Studies Program in Tucson and Sam Chambers, PhD, a researcher in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers were awarded a $6.6 million National Institutes of Health grant to develop the Center of Excellence in Addiction Studies to improve addiction research and develop therapies that can stem the opioid epidemic and impact other substance abuse disorders.

A new initiative seeks to unite global experts from universities, government agencies, nonprofits and industry to develop solutions to future pandemics.

The All of Us Research Program is creating one of the world’s largest and most diverse resources of health information so researchers can study better ways to prevent, manage and treat disease. Francisco Moreno, MD, associate vice president for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the UArizona Health Sciences and a professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine – Tucson, and Yann C. Klimentidis, PhD, associate professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, are interviewed.

Some Pennsylvania cannabis companies are using misleading claims to promote marijuana as a treatment for opioid addiction, potentially putting patients' lives at greater risk. The article cites a paper by Beth Wiese, a neuroscience doctoral candidate in the UArizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program. Wiese works in the labs of Todd Vanderah, PhD, interim director of the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center and Tally Largent-Milnes, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Michel Corban, MD, a board-certified interventional cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at the UArizona Sarver Heart Center, explains the causes and symptoms of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). “Four percent of all heart attacks are related to SCAD and in particular, up to 35 percent of heart attacks in women less than 50 years of age are related to SCAD,” Corban said.

Though it sounds logical, a bar of soap itself isn't necessarily self-cleaning. "Believe it or not, there have been quite a few peer-reviewed, published studies on this exact topic," said Kelly Reynolds, PhD, a professor of environmental health sciences at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.