Health Sciences In The Media PeerWORKS Program Designed to Help Those Impacted by Opioid Disorders Sept. 22, 2021 A new University of Arizona Health Sciences Workforce Education and Training Program has been designed to help people impacted by opioid and substance use disorders. In the state of Arizona, 31 out of every 1,000 children are affected by the opioid crisis that is ravaging the nation. A new training program, known as PeerWORKS, hopes to change that. KVOA-TV (Tucson, AZ) UofA Medical Students Working in Tonto Basin Sept. 21, 2021 Over a dozen College of Medicine – Phoenix students are going to be taking a very close two-year look at community needs in Tonto Basin. Judith Hunt, MD, site director for the College of Medicine – Phoenix program in Rim Country, has been practicing medicine and training medical students and residents in the rural community of Payson, Arizona, for nearly 22 years. Her classroom is 100 miles north of the downtown Phoenix. “The best part of rural medicine is the care of the community. There is nothing that I would trade for being able to see a baby that I helped care for throughout the years, now married with their own children. It’s just amazing to be a part of that young person’s life all the way through.” Payson Roundup The Wellness Design Benefits of Grounding Sept. 21, 2021 Health professionals say our indoor-dominant lives are costing us, and are prescribing time in contact with natural elements to offset this deficit. “The power of nature is being used widely in the integrative medicine community both through activity, diet, surroundings as well as herbal medicine,” said Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, MPH, CCFP, associate professor of clinical medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson and fellowship director with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Forbes Delta’s Winter is Coming Sept. 21, 2021 “This winter might mark a different turning point,” said Saskia Popescu, an epidemiologist and adjunct professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Instead of the end of the pandemic and the start of an endemic, this winter might introduce us to a different, and unsettling, stage. One where we are no longer in lockdown but learning to treat a deadly virus as a normal part of our lives. Politico Bridging the Gap Between Patients and Their Doctors: 3 Key Takeaways From a Cholangiocarcinoma Physician Roundtable Discussion Sept. 20, 2021 Rachna Shroff, MD, chief of the section of GI medical oncology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, joins a roundtable of healthcare providers to discuss the current unmet clinical needs in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer. LinkedIn Arizona Adjusts Approach Towards Unvaccinated Population Sept. 20, 2021 University Arizona Distinguished Professor of Public Health Dr. Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, is interviewed about his role as Gov. Doug Ducey's senior advisor on public health emergency preparedness. KVOA-TV (Tucson, AZ) Overall Survival Benefit of Pembrolizumab Regimen ‘Great News’ for Women With Recurrent Cervical Cancer Sept. 18, 2021 The addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, significantly improved PFS and OS among women with persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer, results of the randomized phase 3 KEYNOTE-826 study showed. Bradley J. Monk, MD, FACS, FACOG, a professor at the College of Medicine – Phoenix and director of gynecologic oncology research at US Oncology Network, said KEYNOTE-826 will rapidly launch pembrolizumab as the global standard of care in first-line metastatic cervical cancer. Healio University of Arizona Health Experts Study Transmission of COVID-19 by Vaccinated People Sept. 17, 2021 A clinical study at the University of Arizona is underway, working to understand COVID-19 infection and the transmission of the virus among vaccinated people. Elizabeth Connick, MD, chief of infectious diseases and professor of medicine and immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, said their goal is to answer the question of whether or not vaccinated people who are exposed to COVID-19 still shed the virus from their nose and mouth and infect others. KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ) Can the COVID-19 Vaccine Lead to Hearing Issues? Sept. 17, 2021 More than 10,000 Americans have reported tinnitus as a possible side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine, and some are now questioning why the FDA and CDC are not taking a deeper look into their claims about hearing problems. "Tinnitus is a serious thing," said Elizabeth Connick, MD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at College of Medicine – Tucson. They're not making it up, and it's very important not to have them feel marginalized." KNXV-TV (Phoenix, AZ) Herd Immunity May Never Be Reached in Pima County, Health Officials Say Sept. 16, 2021 Pima County has 65.3% of its population partially vaccinated and only 55% fully vaccinated. That’s one of the best in the state but is still far from what’s needed. Joe Gerald, MD, PhD, an associate professor of public health policy and management at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has been the go to numbers guy since the beginning of the pandemic 18 months ago. “I think it’s almost certain that we will be living with Covid-19 in some form or another for years to come,” he said. “Maybe forever in all likelihood.” KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ) Pagination « First First page ‹ Previous Previous page … 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 … Next › Next page Last » Last page
PeerWORKS Program Designed to Help Those Impacted by Opioid Disorders Sept. 22, 2021 A new University of Arizona Health Sciences Workforce Education and Training Program has been designed to help people impacted by opioid and substance use disorders. In the state of Arizona, 31 out of every 1,000 children are affected by the opioid crisis that is ravaging the nation. A new training program, known as PeerWORKS, hopes to change that. KVOA-TV (Tucson, AZ)
UofA Medical Students Working in Tonto Basin Sept. 21, 2021 Over a dozen College of Medicine – Phoenix students are going to be taking a very close two-year look at community needs in Tonto Basin. Judith Hunt, MD, site director for the College of Medicine – Phoenix program in Rim Country, has been practicing medicine and training medical students and residents in the rural community of Payson, Arizona, for nearly 22 years. Her classroom is 100 miles north of the downtown Phoenix. “The best part of rural medicine is the care of the community. There is nothing that I would trade for being able to see a baby that I helped care for throughout the years, now married with their own children. It’s just amazing to be a part of that young person’s life all the way through.” Payson Roundup
The Wellness Design Benefits of Grounding Sept. 21, 2021 Health professionals say our indoor-dominant lives are costing us, and are prescribing time in contact with natural elements to offset this deficit. “The power of nature is being used widely in the integrative medicine community both through activity, diet, surroundings as well as herbal medicine,” said Ann Marie Chiasson, MD, MPH, CCFP, associate professor of clinical medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson and fellowship director with the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine. Forbes
Delta’s Winter is Coming Sept. 21, 2021 “This winter might mark a different turning point,” said Saskia Popescu, an epidemiologist and adjunct professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Instead of the end of the pandemic and the start of an endemic, this winter might introduce us to a different, and unsettling, stage. One where we are no longer in lockdown but learning to treat a deadly virus as a normal part of our lives. Politico
Bridging the Gap Between Patients and Their Doctors: 3 Key Takeaways From a Cholangiocarcinoma Physician Roundtable Discussion Sept. 20, 2021 Rachna Shroff, MD, chief of the section of GI medical oncology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, joins a roundtable of healthcare providers to discuss the current unmet clinical needs in cholangiocarcinoma (CCA), a rare and aggressive bile duct cancer. LinkedIn
Arizona Adjusts Approach Towards Unvaccinated Population Sept. 20, 2021 University Arizona Distinguished Professor of Public Health Dr. Richard Carmona, the 17th Surgeon General of the United States, is interviewed about his role as Gov. Doug Ducey's senior advisor on public health emergency preparedness. KVOA-TV (Tucson, AZ)
Overall Survival Benefit of Pembrolizumab Regimen ‘Great News’ for Women With Recurrent Cervical Cancer Sept. 18, 2021 The addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, significantly improved PFS and OS among women with persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer, results of the randomized phase 3 KEYNOTE-826 study showed. Bradley J. Monk, MD, FACS, FACOG, a professor at the College of Medicine – Phoenix and director of gynecologic oncology research at US Oncology Network, said KEYNOTE-826 will rapidly launch pembrolizumab as the global standard of care in first-line metastatic cervical cancer. Healio
University of Arizona Health Experts Study Transmission of COVID-19 by Vaccinated People Sept. 17, 2021 A clinical study at the University of Arizona is underway, working to understand COVID-19 infection and the transmission of the virus among vaccinated people. Elizabeth Connick, MD, chief of infectious diseases and professor of medicine and immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, said their goal is to answer the question of whether or not vaccinated people who are exposed to COVID-19 still shed the virus from their nose and mouth and infect others. KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ)
Can the COVID-19 Vaccine Lead to Hearing Issues? Sept. 17, 2021 More than 10,000 Americans have reported tinnitus as a possible side effect of the COVID-19 vaccine, and some are now questioning why the FDA and CDC are not taking a deeper look into their claims about hearing problems. "Tinnitus is a serious thing," said Elizabeth Connick, MD, chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at College of Medicine – Tucson. They're not making it up, and it's very important not to have them feel marginalized." KNXV-TV (Phoenix, AZ)
Herd Immunity May Never Be Reached in Pima County, Health Officials Say Sept. 16, 2021 Pima County has 65.3% of its population partially vaccinated and only 55% fully vaccinated. That’s one of the best in the state but is still far from what’s needed. Joe Gerald, MD, PhD, an associate professor of public health policy and management at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has been the go to numbers guy since the beginning of the pandemic 18 months ago. “I think it’s almost certain that we will be living with Covid-19 in some form or another for years to come,” he said. “Maybe forever in all likelihood.” KOLD-TV (Tucson, AZ)