Health Sciences In The Media

Copper has long been known to be antibacterial, but research led by Michael D. L. Johnson, PhD, shows how a special compound can be bound to copper to kill even antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

In the past few weeks Arizona attorney general Mark Brnovich, who is also running for U.S. Senate, has begun casting doubt on vaccine effectiveness far more openly.

Joel A. Dvoskin, PhD, a clinical assistant professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine – Tucson, says reducing gun ownership to levels seen in peer countries is "literally impossible."

A story focusing on the misinformation surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic mentions an interview in The Atlantic with Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, an immunobiologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson.

The College of Medicine – Tucson will lead a study to determine the impact of carotid disease on cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.

Now that 5 to 11-year-olds are cleared to get Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine, some parents are concerned about adverse events from the shot.

Medical research hasn’t always been inclusive, but the All of Us Research Program is changing that.

What happens when oncology practitioners trade their white coat for a hospital gown? How does the emotional toll of their personal cancer journey change the way they interact with their patients? Taylor Riall, MD, PhD, a general surgeon and surgical oncologist at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, shares her experience after a cancer diagnosis.

Changing the way we think about food, not just as fuel but to fight illness and disease, is the focus of a growing culinary medicine program at the University of Arizona, where doctors are being trained to prescribe the right meals as medicine. "Food really is medicine and good food can really heal us, treat, prevent and reverse the diseases of our time," says Farshad Fani Marvasti, MD, MPH, associate professor and director of Public Health, Prevention and Health Promotion Curriculum at the College of Medicine – Phoenix.

COVID-19 has added another health hazard for older adults. Once infected with the virus, people in their 60s, 70s, 80s and above are at increasingly higher risk of experiencing severe COVID-19 illness, hospitalization and death. Although its difficult to precisely measure the impact of immune-system aging, "We know that it adds a massive risk. Those over 80 are 260-fold more likely to die from COVID-19 than those between 18 and 39," says Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, department head and professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson.