Five more unique electives for residency April 24, 2023 A story suggests medical residents consider the Integrative Medicine Elective Rotation at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson. The DO
Image Arizona Board of Regents confirms five new UArizona Regents Professors April 21, 2023 Price Fishback, Takeshi Inomata, Chris Segrin, Kathy Short and Todd Vanderah are the University of Arizona's newest Regents Professors. The university's highest faculty rank honors exceptional achievements that merit national and international recognition. Read more
Image Robbins to Regents: UArizona Health Sciences 'will advance the frontiers of health and wellness in Arizona and beyond' April 21, 2023 University of Arizona Health Sciences has come a long way since the College of Medicine's founding in 1967 and is uniquely poised to help address Arizona's long-term health care needs, President Robert C. Robbins said in a presentation to the Arizona Board of Regents. Read more
Dr. Todd Vanderah receives highest faculty distinction as 2023 Regents Professor April 21, 2023 Read more
New theories of possible link between COVID vaccines and tinnitus are emerging April 21, 2023 The CDC didn’t find a link between the vaccines and hundreds of new cases of tinnitus, a debilitating ringing in the ears, but some scientists say it must do more to investigate. NBC News
Image Miniature organs driving precision medicine, drug discovery April 20, 2023 University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers are using organoids to design novel therapies and better understand cancer and rare diseases. Read more
Effort to let Arizona psychologists prescribe mental health drugs dead, advocates say April 20, 2023 Legislation that would allow certain Arizona psychologists to prescribe medications for mental health disorders appears dead, for now. A November 2020 report on Arizona's behavioral health workforce from the Center for Rural Health is cited. The Arizona Republic
The devil lurking in the dust April 20, 2023 Efforts to develop a cure for Valley fever could involve the use of live attenuated vaccines, which elicit a robust immune response – including T cells – but also run the risk of replicating uncontrollably in people with compromised immune systems. Preventing that is now possible. Vox