Health Sciences In The Media

Scientists are still figuring out how many women have seen their menstrual cycles change from COVID-19 infection and the vaccines, but it’s clear the numbers are substantial.

The SaddleBrooke Tennis Club is partnering with the UArizona Cancer Center's Skin Cancer Institute and Arizona Athletics' men's and women's tennis teams to raise money for cancer research.

Hormone replacement therapy is usually the first-line treatment to help to ease menopause symptoms, including brain fog and low mood, and it could potentially help with dementia too.

John Streicher, PhD, member of the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center and associate professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine – Tucson, explains the science behind cannabinoids.

Researchers are exploring a potential alternative to prescription opioids that is safe, affordable and comes with few or no side effects and no risk of addiction: green light exposure.

The National Eye Institute's Anterior Segment Initiative has funded eight research projects to explore the innervation of the eye’s surface.

The UArizona Center for Rural Health in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health presented strategies in a physician specialty workforce profile that the state can use to augment the state’s rural health care workforce.

A story examines the limits of research oversight and scientific ethics. Jennifer Schnellmann, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology in the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, is quoted.

UArizona researchers, including Joyce A. Schroeder, PhD, professor of molecular and cellular biology in the UArizona College of Science and a member of the UArizona Cancer Center, are working on a less toxic treatment for triple-negative breast cancer.

Two new research papers cast doubt on whether the latest COVID-19 boosters are any better than the original vaccines.