Health Sciences In The Media For Many Immunosuppressed, Churches Stopped Being a Safe Place Feb. 27, 2022 As states across the country are lifting COVID-19 precautions such as mask mandates and some churches have dropped online services, the immunocompromised are weighing their risk of possible exposure in worship services. And some are finding their fellow parishioners and church leaders aren't taking measures to protect them. Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson, is quoted. The Washington Post Scrase: You Don’t Need Scientific Evidence to Remove a Mask Mandate Feb. 24, 2022 Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is quoted. She joined 400 public health researchers, practitioners, physicians and educators in signing an open letter encouraging elected officials to reevaluate ending mask mandates for schools. Source New Mexico Train Your Brain for Better Sleep With 3 Expert Tips Feb. 24, 2022 Michael Grandner, PhD, director of the Sleep and Heath Research Program at the College of Medicine – Tucson, provides his top three ways to train your brain to fall asleep. CNN 20 Years Ago, a Landmark Report Spotlighted Systemic Racism in Medicine. Why Has So Little Changed? Feb. 23, 2022 It has been two decades since the publication of Unequal Treatment, the first major report to point to longstanding systemic racism as the primary reason for the nation’s deeply entrenched health disparities. Jennie Joe, PhD, MPH, a professor emerita of family and community medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson and interim director of the UArizona Wassaja Carlos Montezuma Center for Native American Health, is quoted. STAT UA Receives Millions in Grant Money to Combat Drug Overdoses Amid the Pandemic Feb. 22, 2022 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. KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ) Robotic Dogs Patrolling the US Border Won’t Help Solve the Migrant Crisis Feb. 22, 2022 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. The Washington Post UA Leading Efforts to Address Health Disparities Minorities Face Feb. 21, 2022 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. KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ) Some Companies Promote Cannabis as an Addiction Treatment Using Misleading or Dangerous Tactics Feb. 21, 2022 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. Spotlight PA Doctor Sheds Light on Condition Causing Heart Attacks in Young, Healthy Women Feb. 21, 2022 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. KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ) How Bad Is It to Share a Bar of Soap? Feb. 20, 2022 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. LIVESTRONG Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page … 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 … Next › Next page Last » Last page
For Many Immunosuppressed, Churches Stopped Being a Safe Place Feb. 27, 2022 As states across the country are lifting COVID-19 precautions such as mask mandates and some churches have dropped online services, the immunocompromised are weighing their risk of possible exposure in worship services. And some are finding their fellow parishioners and church leaders aren't taking measures to protect them. Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson, is quoted. The Washington Post
Scrase: You Don’t Need Scientific Evidence to Remove a Mask Mandate Feb. 24, 2022 Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is quoted. She joined 400 public health researchers, practitioners, physicians and educators in signing an open letter encouraging elected officials to reevaluate ending mask mandates for schools. Source New Mexico
Train Your Brain for Better Sleep With 3 Expert Tips Feb. 24, 2022 Michael Grandner, PhD, director of the Sleep and Heath Research Program at the College of Medicine – Tucson, provides his top three ways to train your brain to fall asleep. CNN
20 Years Ago, a Landmark Report Spotlighted Systemic Racism in Medicine. Why Has So Little Changed? Feb. 23, 2022 It has been two decades since the publication of Unequal Treatment, the first major report to point to longstanding systemic racism as the primary reason for the nation’s deeply entrenched health disparities. Jennie Joe, PhD, MPH, a professor emerita of family and community medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson and interim director of the UArizona Wassaja Carlos Montezuma Center for Native American Health, is quoted. STAT
UA Receives Millions in Grant Money to Combat Drug Overdoses Amid the Pandemic Feb. 22, 2022 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. KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ)
Robotic Dogs Patrolling the US Border Won’t Help Solve the Migrant Crisis Feb. 22, 2022 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. The Washington Post
UA Leading Efforts to Address Health Disparities Minorities Face Feb. 21, 2022 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. KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ)
Some Companies Promote Cannabis as an Addiction Treatment Using Misleading or Dangerous Tactics Feb. 21, 2022 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. Spotlight PA
Doctor Sheds Light on Condition Causing Heart Attacks in Young, Healthy Women Feb. 21, 2022 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. KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ)
How Bad Is It to Share a Bar of Soap? Feb. 20, 2022 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. LIVESTRONG