Health Sciences In The Media

Joel A. Dvoskin, PhD, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine – Tucson, discusses the psychology behind online hate speech in broad terms following a raid by FBI agents in Utah that killed a man who threatened President Biden.

The Patient Registry, Imaging Database and Tissue Bank, developed by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, represents a unique resource researchers can use to develop novel tools to help doctors diagnose and predict likely outcomes for skin cancer.

Dartmouth College is convening all seven living U.S. Surgeons General, including Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, distinguished laureate professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, for a discussion of the nation’s mental health crisis this fall.

Researchers have uncovered a way to potentially improve outcomes from pre-term births and prevent obesity-related liver disease. In a new study, scientists saw improvement in both conditions with an inflammation-targeting antibody.

A listing of nursing of nursing college options in Tucson includes the College of Nursing.

A $1.5 million National Cancer Institute grant will fund “Student Transformative Experiences to Progress Undergraduate and Graduate Professionals,” an intensive, multidisciplinary cancer prevention and control research training program for undergraduate and graduate students.

"Well at Work: Creating Wellbeing in Any Workspace," a book by Esther Sternberg, MD, professor of medicine and director of research at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson, is reviewed.

With a $4 million grant form the National Institutes of Health, researchers at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will focus on behavioral interventions to improve firefighter sleep and recovery.

Many people consider ketamine a street drug, but the anesthetic medication has many beneficial uses, says Mohab Ibrahim, MD, PhD, medical director of the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center.

A $3.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow researchers to study how new technology can help cancer patients manage symptoms and related stress from cancer treatment while at home.