Health Sciences In The Media The Danger of Not Closing the Toilet Lid When Flushing, Could Spread Infectious Diseases Aug. 5, 2021 Pathogens and bacteria can survive in the bathroom for hours, weeks, or months. "Aerosols can spread anywhere from one to six feet, an average of three feet," said Kelly Reynolds, PhD, MSPH, professor and director of the Environment, Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center at the University of Arizona. Kompas.com (Jakarta) UA Receives $4M Grant to Support Health Services in Rural Arizona Aug. 4, 2021 The UArizona Center for Rural Health has received a five-year, multi-million dollar grant from state and federal sources to continue their mission of providing health care, education, technical assistance, data analyses and more to rural communities throughout the state. Tucsonlocalmedia If You Live Here, You're Five Times More Likely to Encounter a Scorpion Aug. 4, 2021 A review by researchers from the College of Medicine – Phoenix finds Arizonans experience five times as many encounters with scorpions as residents of any other state. The team tabulated 57,168 reported scorpion encounters statewide between 2010 and 2015, compared to just 9,695 cases in second-place Texas. MSN Best Life Delta and Vaccinated Parents: What People With Kids Under 12 Need to Know Aug. 4, 2021 Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, an immunologist and professor of medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson, said recent findings from the CDC that vaccinated people who are infected with the delta variant could spread the virus just as easily as unvaccinated individuals should prompt behavioral changes across the board. “What we do not know at this point is whether the virus produced in vaccinated people is still at the same level of infectivity, or whether the presence of antibodies in these people may make the virus less infectious,” he said. “Until we learn about that, the delta variant behavior should mandate a change in strategies and approaches.” NBC News How to Have a Conversation About the COVID-19 Vaccine Aug. 2, 2021 Maiya Block, a graduate assistant at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is holding an online chat Wednesday to help people who want to have productive conversations with others who are hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. "We're just trying to equip people with just some basic conversation skills that they can be able to have an effective conversation and talk about the issues in a clear way that won't make it into a heated discussion or continue to pass on any myths," she said. Arizona Public Media Germany Will Offer Vaccine Booster Shots Starting in September Aug. 2, 2021 As concerns grow over the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus, Germany on Monday became the largest Western country yet to announce that it will offer vaccine booster shots to a wide range of people considered potentially vulnerable. "The problem here is, we're just sort of going on immunological priors, rather than really great data to justify things one way or the other," said Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, professor and immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson. The New York Times The '4-7-8 Technique' Promises to Help You Fall Asleep in 60 Seconds, and Is Hailed by Experts and Insomniacs Around the World. Aug. 1, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic left many people with disrupted sleep patterns. The 4-7-8 technique developed by Andrew Weil, MD, founder of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, is based on ancient meditation and breathing techniques. Also known as the "Relaxing Breath," the method puts the practitioner in a relaxed state almost immediately. editor99.com Masks Are Effective Against Valley Fever, Experts Say July 29, 2021 Arizona has recorded more than 6,800 cases of valley fever so far this year, according to July data from the Arizona Department of Health Services. Valley fever is a lung disease caused by the inhalation of Coccidioides, a fungus common in the alkaline soil of the Sonoran Desert. The Valley Fever Center for Excellence at the University of Arizona has a list of valley fever specialists. Cronkite News Fact Check: Springfield Councilwoman’s Statements on COVID-19, Vaccine, Masks and Experts July 29, 2021 Delivery of the J&J vaccine was paused earlier this year because six people developed blood clots after its use. The vaccine was later found to be safe. A person is “17 times more likely to get a blood clot from COVID-19 than from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine,” according to Ricardo Correa, MD, associate professor at the College of Medicine – Phoenix. Springfield News-Leader (Springfield, MO) Your Immune System Responds Very Differently to a ‘Breakthrough’ COVID-19 Infection July 28, 2021 According to Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, an immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson, the virus must overcome "backup layer after backup layer" of defenses. So even if a virus continues to spread through a person's body, "each stage it has to get past takes a bigger chunk" out of it, Bhattacharya said. 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The Danger of Not Closing the Toilet Lid When Flushing, Could Spread Infectious Diseases Aug. 5, 2021 Pathogens and bacteria can survive in the bathroom for hours, weeks, or months. "Aerosols can spread anywhere from one to six feet, an average of three feet," said Kelly Reynolds, PhD, MSPH, professor and director of the Environment, Exposure Science and Risk Assessment Center at the University of Arizona. Kompas.com (Jakarta)
UA Receives $4M Grant to Support Health Services in Rural Arizona Aug. 4, 2021 The UArizona Center for Rural Health has received a five-year, multi-million dollar grant from state and federal sources to continue their mission of providing health care, education, technical assistance, data analyses and more to rural communities throughout the state. Tucsonlocalmedia
If You Live Here, You're Five Times More Likely to Encounter a Scorpion Aug. 4, 2021 A review by researchers from the College of Medicine – Phoenix finds Arizonans experience five times as many encounters with scorpions as residents of any other state. The team tabulated 57,168 reported scorpion encounters statewide between 2010 and 2015, compared to just 9,695 cases in second-place Texas. MSN Best Life
Delta and Vaccinated Parents: What People With Kids Under 12 Need to Know Aug. 4, 2021 Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, an immunologist and professor of medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson, said recent findings from the CDC that vaccinated people who are infected with the delta variant could spread the virus just as easily as unvaccinated individuals should prompt behavioral changes across the board. “What we do not know at this point is whether the virus produced in vaccinated people is still at the same level of infectivity, or whether the presence of antibodies in these people may make the virus less infectious,” he said. “Until we learn about that, the delta variant behavior should mandate a change in strategies and approaches.” NBC News
How to Have a Conversation About the COVID-19 Vaccine Aug. 2, 2021 Maiya Block, a graduate assistant at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is holding an online chat Wednesday to help people who want to have productive conversations with others who are hesitant to get the COVID-19 vaccine. "We're just trying to equip people with just some basic conversation skills that they can be able to have an effective conversation and talk about the issues in a clear way that won't make it into a heated discussion or continue to pass on any myths," she said. Arizona Public Media
Germany Will Offer Vaccine Booster Shots Starting in September Aug. 2, 2021 As concerns grow over the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus, Germany on Monday became the largest Western country yet to announce that it will offer vaccine booster shots to a wide range of people considered potentially vulnerable. "The problem here is, we're just sort of going on immunological priors, rather than really great data to justify things one way or the other," said Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, professor and immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson. The New York Times
The '4-7-8 Technique' Promises to Help You Fall Asleep in 60 Seconds, and Is Hailed by Experts and Insomniacs Around the World. Aug. 1, 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic left many people with disrupted sleep patterns. The 4-7-8 technique developed by Andrew Weil, MD, founder of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona, is based on ancient meditation and breathing techniques. Also known as the "Relaxing Breath," the method puts the practitioner in a relaxed state almost immediately. editor99.com
Masks Are Effective Against Valley Fever, Experts Say July 29, 2021 Arizona has recorded more than 6,800 cases of valley fever so far this year, according to July data from the Arizona Department of Health Services. Valley fever is a lung disease caused by the inhalation of Coccidioides, a fungus common in the alkaline soil of the Sonoran Desert. The Valley Fever Center for Excellence at the University of Arizona has a list of valley fever specialists. Cronkite News
Fact Check: Springfield Councilwoman’s Statements on COVID-19, Vaccine, Masks and Experts July 29, 2021 Delivery of the J&J vaccine was paused earlier this year because six people developed blood clots after its use. The vaccine was later found to be safe. A person is “17 times more likely to get a blood clot from COVID-19 than from the Johnson & Johnson vaccine,” according to Ricardo Correa, MD, associate professor at the College of Medicine – Phoenix. Springfield News-Leader (Springfield, MO)
Your Immune System Responds Very Differently to a ‘Breakthrough’ COVID-19 Infection July 28, 2021 According to Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, an immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson, the virus must overcome "backup layer after backup layer" of defenses. So even if a virus continues to spread through a person's body, "each stage it has to get past takes a bigger chunk" out of it, Bhattacharya said. Advisory Board