Health Sciences In The Media

Nicole Person-Rennell, MD, MPH, assistant professor of Family and Community Medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson, discusses childhood and adolescent obesity.

New research suggests that poor sleep quality, including moving around too much or having sleep apnea, may increase the risk for a future heart problem.

Sabrina Plattner, senior health educator in the Department of Health Promotion Sciences in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, discusses the importance of health education for childhood obesity prevention and healthy lifestyles for all.

A medical manufacturer has been working with Tucson government officials to build a plant that would sterilize products vital to the supply chain, but many local residents don't want it.

8chili, a deep tech company building the underlying infrastructure for metaverse content creation and distribution, entered into a collaboration with the UArizona Health Sciences Arizona Simulation Technology and Education Center to test and design educational tools on the HintVR Virtual Reality Simulation Platform.

Ricardo Correa, MD, director of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship Program in the College of Medicine – Phoenix, joined a discussion about the role of screeners, navigators, community health workers and promotoras in infection control.

Older age is associated with many health conditions that could potentially benefit from psychedelic-assisted therapy, yet few older adults have been included in clinical trials of psychedelics, new research shows.

David Garcia, PhD, associate professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, joined the board of directors of NASH kNOWledge, an organization that provides education and awareness of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis.

Experts shared dietary tips for people with Graves' disease.

Bivalent vaccines contain the mRNA components of the spike genes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus ancestral strain and the BA.4/5 subvariants.