Monsoon Season Increases Valley Fever Risk, Doctors Warn June 27, 2022 Valley fever cases can rise during the summer as the risk of inhaling airborne spores increases when the desert soil dries out and spores become airborne. Queen Creek Sun Times
Agency Begins to Take Shape Amid Questions About Scope, Mission, Overlap With NIH June 27, 2022 Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, Regents Professor of pharmacology and director of the UArizona Health Sciences Center for Innovation in Brain Science, participated in a discussion about the National Institute of Health’s Advanced Research Project Agency for Health. JD Supra
How Bad Is It to Never Deep Clean Your Bathroom? June 26, 2022 Research has found private bathrooms harbor the same potentially harmful pathogens as public ones, including Staphylococcus, methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), human papilloma virus (HPV) and herpes. LIVESTRONG
Group Works to Make Arizona's Judiciary More Diverse June 25, 2022 More than a dozen students from BASIS Tucson North, Tanque Verde and Sunnyside high schools, Pima Community College and the UArizona attended an event to introduce kids and teens of diverse backgrounds to careers as judges. Arizona Daily Star
UArizona Health Sciences Strengthens Foundation for Future Collaboration with University of Western Australia Medical School June 24, 2022 A memorandum of understanding formalized a framework for developing academic and cultural interchanges in teaching and research in health sciences. Read more Image
Fewer and Fewer Are Wearing a Mask June 24, 2022 This story cites an article in The Arizona Republic about an increasing body of research linking long COVID to a reactivation of latent viruses, such as Epstein-Barr virus, which causes mononucleosis in a certain percentage of people. ClearHealthCosts
UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson Names New Orthopaedic Surgery Chair June 23, 2022 John Elfar, MD, a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, comes from the Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine. Read more Image
Impact of Title IX Passage Resonates Across Health Sciences June 23, 2022 Fifty years after law’s passage, female students and faculty are finding more doors open. Read more Image
Endocannabinoid Deficiency May Play a Role in Migraine June 22, 2022 There may be a link between migraine and clinical endocannabinoid deficiency according to Tally Largent-Milnes, PhD, associate professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine – Tucson, who presented her research at the American Headache Society’s annual scientific meetings. Zipe Education