Health Sciences In The Media

Dr. Shad Marvasti, director of public health, prevention and health promotion with the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, is interviewed about how Arizona can better prepare for a new coronavirus surge.

While the days leading up to most presidential elections carry a certain frenzied, exhausted energy fueled by attack ads and nonstop robocalls, this election cycle has felt abnormally anxiety-inducing for many Americans. “We’re certainly in the middle of a perfect storm,” said Dr. Esther Sternberg, research director at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Humans respond physiologically to stress — we sweat, our hearts race — and those responses, Sternberg said, are essential for our survival.

Omitting radiation and giving fewer chemotherapy treatments may become the new standard of care for patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) classified as either stage 1 or 2, according to the findings of the S1001 study led by a University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher.

ENR Southwest’s 2020 Best Projects competition drew 74 entries from across Arizona, Nevada and New Mexico. The University of Arizona Health Sciences Innovation Building (HSIB) was selected in the Best Project category. The region’s 18 Best Projects will now advance to the national level, competing with winners from nine other regions to be considered for ENR’s Best of the Best awards.

Dr. Shad Marvasti, director of public health, prevention and health promotion with the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, is interviewed about how sudden changes in temperature can impact a person's health.

Continuing coverage: A recent study led by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers found that COVID-19 antibodies can last between five and seven months after recovery. However, contradictory research suggests that they fade within weeks.

While the days leading up to most presidential elections carry a certain frenzied, exhausted energy fueled by attack ads and nonstop robocalls, this election cycle has felt abnormally anxiety-inducing for many Americans. “We’re certainly in the middle of a perfect storm,” said Dr. Esther Sternberg, research director at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona. Humans respond physiologically to stress — we sweat, our hearts race — and those responses, Sternberg said, are essential for our survival.

Dr. Kelly Reynolds, an environmental microbiologist in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health at the University of Arizona, acknowledged that more lockdowns are probably coming in the weeks and months ahead, citing curfews in Europe and a voluntary stay-at-home order in El Paso, Texas. The good news, she added, is that mortality rates are lower now than they were in the spring, indicating doctors have gotten better at treating the virus and that communities are less likely to “get into danger zones where hospitals get overrun.”

Dr. Elaine Situ-LaCasse, an associate professor and emergency ultrasound faculty at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, is leading a study to design an educational program teaching rural health care professionals about the use of lung ultrasound technology remotely.

The goal of reaching immunity for COVID has been intensely debated and we have new research on antibodies to throw into the mix. Dr. Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunobiologist and The Today Show - Hoda/Jenna associate professor and at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson, talks about his recent study published in the journal Immunity, to determine whether people who are infected are immune from reinfection and, if so, for how long.