Health Sciences In The Media

Reporter Edward Celaya interviews Todd Vanderah, PhD, director of the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center, Tally Largent-Milnes, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine – Tucson, and John Streicher, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, in a podcast about cannabis research at the UArizona Health Sciences.

A number of studies indicate hormone replacement therapy, often prescribed for women going through menopause, may benefit brain health.

This story chronicles the recent political and personal journey of the first lady, Dr. Jill Biden, including a March meeting with health care professionals at San Xavier Health Center, where the University of Arizona Cancer Center has been working to expand colorectal cancer prevention and early-detection strategies.

The Homing Project, a local non-profit, aims to create a village of micro-homes with wraparound behavioral health and medical services. The organization's founder says the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health has offered volunteers.

Access to on-campus food pantries is making a difference for college students in California, according to a study.

Uvalde is the latest in a long history of school shootings. This story looks back on the mass shooting at the College of Nursing on Oct. 28, 2002.

How much dust do children swallow? Researchers at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will try to answer that question as part of the Dust Ingestion Children Study, a national project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Experts say unrelenting developments are taking a toll on our mental and physical health and how we interact as a society with the targeting of churches and schools as distressing to many people who have long regarded them as safe spaces.

All of Us, a national research program working with Banner Health and the University of Arizona Health Sciences, aims to diversify the health care system.

Humans could lose up to two weeks of sleep a year by the end of the century, study finds.