Health Sciences In The Media

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Jennifer Whitehair, MD, an associate clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, received the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Outstanding American Indian/Alaska Native Women’s Healthcare Clinician Award.

Suicide attempts among preteens are on the rise nationwide and in southern Arizona. Steven Dudley, PharmD, DABAT, director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, said his office has noticed an increase in intentional overdoses that spiked during the pandemic.