Some Pennsylvania cannabis companies are using misleading claims to promote marijuana as a treatment for opioid addiction, potentially putting patients' lives at greater risk. The article cites a paper by Beth Wiese, a neuroscience doctoral candidate in the UArizona Graduate Interdisciplinary Program. Wiese works in the labs of Todd Vanderah, PhD, interim director of the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center and Tally Largent-Milnes, PhD, assistant professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Michel Corban, MD, a board-certified interventional cardiologist and assistant professor of medicine at the UArizona Sarver Heart Center, explains the causes and symptoms of spontaneous coronary artery dissection (SCAD). “Four percent of all heart attacks are related to SCAD and in particular, up to 35 percent of heart attacks in women less than 50 years of age are related to SCAD,” Corban said.

Though it sounds logical, a bar of soap itself isn't necessarily self-cleaning. "Believe it or not, there have been quite a few peer-reviewed, published studies on this exact topic," said Kelly Reynolds, PhD, a professor of environmental health sciences at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Malawi health officials have declared an outbreak of wild poliovirus type 1 after a case was confirmed in a three-year-old girl, the first case in Africa in five years, according to the World Health Organization. Kacey C. Ernst, PhD, MPH, a professor and infectious disease epidemiologist at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health in Tucson, is interviewed.

The infant formula Abbott recall was announced after four infants developed bacterial infections after consuming the formula. “In infants, Salmonella can cause infection of the gut, bloodstream infection, infection of the bones/joints, and meningitis,” said Kareem Shehab, MD, associate professor of pediatrics at the College of Medicine – Tucson.

The article cites a study by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences that found the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine is 92% effective at preventing COVID-19 in children between the ages of 12 and 17. The lead author Karen Lutrick, PhD, an assistant professor at the College of Medicine – Tucson, is quoted.

Metabolite technology developed in the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson has been licensed to MetFora, a startup launched through Tech Launch Arizona .

While the isolation and stress of the pandemic has affected overall mental health, Health Sciences experts say teenagers have been hit particularly hard.

The inaugural chest pain guideline from the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association redefines how physicians discuss chest pain with patients and provides a detailed clinical decision pathway for diagnosis and management. Joseph S. Alpert, MD, a professor of medicine and cardiologist at the UArizona Sarver Heart Center and College of Medicine – Tucson, is quoted.