Biological changes after fire exposure may increase firefighters’ disease risk, according to Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health researchers.

A study led by researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zukerman College of Public Health identified changes in the cellular mechanisms controlling gene expression, called epigenetics, that may contribute to an increased risk of diseases including cancer in firefighters.

The worldwide incidence of cutaneous melanoma is predicted to rise sharply over the next two decades, according to a report from the International Agency for Research on Cancer. In an editorial, Mavis Obeng-Kusi, MPharm, and Ivo Abraham, PhD, RN, from the Center for Health Outcomes and PharmacoEconomic Research at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, said the findings are "sobering," but may substantially underestimate the gravity of the problem in low- and middle-income countries.

The World Health Organization is investigating hearing loss and ringing in the ears as potential rare side effects of the COVID-19 vaccines. The WHO's work is "overdue" but "helpful," according to Shaowen Bao, PhD, an assistant professor of physiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, who is studying the COVID-19 vaccine and tinnitus.

Working in a combat hospital in the Middle East and trauma centers in rural America prepared Kristie Hoch to train future CRNAs to provide anesthesia care for patients.

U.S. colleges and universities have relaxed campus requirements for coronavirus testing of vaccinated people in recent weeks, chipping away at some of the last widespread surveillance testing programs and dismaying public health experts, who say that robust sources of transmission data will be lost. Saskia Popescu, PhD, infectious disease epidemiologist and infection prevention expert at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is quoted.

Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix ranked No. 1 in a list of the Top 10 hospitals in Arizona, as featured in the 2022 edition of Ranking Arizona. The institution, which has trained thousands of doctors over decades as a teaching hospital, is the academic medical center for the College of Medicine – Phoenix.

By learning to increase our Emotional Intelligence (EI), we may strengthen our intuitive decision-making. Anna Alkozei, PhD, a visiting scholar in the department of psychiatry at the College of Medicine – Tucson, led a study providing evidence that ability EI can be improved through an online training program.