Health Sciences In The Media

A new study by UArizona Cancer Center researchers piloted a unique outreach strategy to foster dialogue between basic scientists and community members.

The Arizona State Nursing Board is addressing the state’s nursing shortage through new grant funding approved by lawmakers. The board received $75 million for the next three years through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System.

The UArizona College of Nursing was one of 50 institutions nationwide to receive a Health Resources and Services Administration grant to increase the number and diversity of Doctor of Nursing Practice students in clinical rotations at Federally Qualified Health Center partners in southern Arizona.

The number of people aged 60 and older who committed suicide in Pima County rose between 2018 to 2022. Experts say the key to combating suicides is to recognize the signs of depression and to get treatment as early as possible.

Joann Sweasy, PhD, Nancy C. and Craig M. Berge Endowed Chair and UArizona Cancer Center director, has been elected by the members of the Association of American Cancer Institutes to serve as vice president/president-elect of the organization's board of directors.

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, a division of the National Institutes of Health, awarded a $750,000 training program grant to researchers at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health to support master’s students in the Industrial Hygiene Program.

Increased levels of social isolation are prominent among young adult cancer survivors and can be detrimental to overall well-being, while social connectedness proved to be beneficial for this population, according to recent research published in the journal Cancer.

UArizona Cancer Center researchers were awarded a $1.5 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to deliver a cancer prevention and control research training program for undergraduate and graduate students called “Student Transformative Experiences to Progress Undergraduate and Graduate Professionals.”

COVID-19's destructive potential is now being throttled by widespread immunity and updated vaccines. Instead, as immunologist Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, professor at the College of Medicine – Tucson, puts it, we're now in a "stalemate" with SARS-CoV-2.

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.