Health Sciences In The Media

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.

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.

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

Health experts are expecting another COVID-19 surge this fall and winter due to waning immunity from vaccines and more people spending time indoors. Natasha Bhuyan, MD, clinical assistant professor in the College of Medicine – Phoenix, is quoted

From providing accurate COVID-19 information to advocating for testing and vaccination with cultural sensitivity, promotoras, or Spanish-speaking community health workers, were key to serving marginalized Hispanic populations. Jill Guernsey de Zapien Border, director of the Transborder and Binational Public Health program in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is quoted.

Building an AI tool to improve medical interviews is the continuing focus of a Vertically Integrated Project offered by the UArizona Health Sciences Design program. Related content.

The Rural Health Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship in the College of Medicine – Phoenix is mentioned as one of two programs attracting outside medical students to the Payson community.

The Yuma Center for Excellence for Desert Agriculture set up a lab to test wastewater for early warnings of COVID-19's spread throughout Yuma. This collaboration between public health and wastewater testing requiring the expertise of a range of professionals across multiple industries is considered a One Health approach. Frank A. von Hippel, PhD, professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and lead of the UArizona Health Sciences “One Health” research initiative, is quoted. The Health Sciences Office of Communications assisted with this story.

Two University of Arizona Health Sciences scientists are one step closer to developing a test to assess a baby’s risk for asthma, which would allow parents to take steps to thwart the disease’s development and could guide doctors to prescribe preventive treatments. This content originated with a Health Sciences news release.