University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers discovered a potential treatment to reduce the risk of post-stroke dementia, which may be influenced by the immune response to dead brain tissue left in the wake of a stroke, according to a study published in the Journal of Neuroscience.

The two poison centers in Arizona have seen a significant increase in poisonings related to fentanyl from illicit M30 tablets. These counterfeit pills are very dangerous and can be so toxic they cause death. Steve Dudley, PharmD, DABAT, clinical toxicologist and director of the UArizona Poison and Drug Information Center, is quoted.

Solutions require complex, sustained effort to move the mountain of historical racism in medicine and the systemic ways it may exhibit itself today.

This free service is part of a research project on fatty liver, particularly non-alcoholic, at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman Arizona College of Public Health, which seeks to estimate the presence of scarring and fat in the liver of Hispanic inhabitants of Southern Arizona.

The U.S. healthcare industry is poised to grow tremendously over the next decade, but that doesn't mean its workers will reap the benefits. Not even doctors are safe from the crushing weight of debt anymore. Daniel Derksen, MD, a professor of public health at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, said he's seen doctors in his state flock in greater numbers to places like Phoenix and Tucson, where the pay is greater.

Researchers have been looking to animal venoms for the next generation of antibiotics. Leslie Boyer, MD, associate professor at the College of Medicine – Tucson and medical director of the Arizona Poison Drug Information Center, who was not involved in the work, says the authors present convincing evidence for venom-dwelling microbes. But as a physician, she is skeptical that the microbes described in the paper have immediate clinical relevance.

The former director of the FDA suggests starting to lift pandemic-related restrictions, including mask wearing. Shad Marvasti, MD, associate professor of family and community medicine at the College of Medicine in Phoenix – disagrees. Dr. Marvasti says the lifting of mask requirements is one of the reasons why that approach led to Arizona being the second highest in deaths per capita nationally.