Health Sciences In The Media

For older adults with clinical depression that has not responded to standard treatments, adding the drug aripiprazole to an antidepressant they’re already taking is more effective than switching from one antidepressant to another, according to a new multicenter study.

Local doctors are working to increase awareness and education of colon cancer and screenings throughout March as part of Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month.

The UArizona Steele Children's Research Center was selected by Angel Charity for Children to receive $800,000 in funding to help children in need in Tucson.

Alzheimer's can affect us all – but women are affected much more often than men. For Germany, this corresponds to a number of around 800,000 sufferers. Research conducted by Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, director of the UArizona Center for Innovation in Brain Science, is cited.

The Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy and the Arizona Dispensaries Association are teaming up to combat a growing number of accidental marijuana intakes, especially among children.

Stricter rules for patients and doctors who use telemedicine could soon become reality. The DEA recently proposed rules that would require patients to see a doctor in person before they could receive treatment for an attention deficit disorder or be prescribed things like painkillers.

An article about alternative medicine infiltrating mainstream health care mentions the research of Gary Schwartz, professor of psychology in the UArizona College of Science with additional appointments in the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Researchers at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy have been developing and measuring the effectiveness of a new compound that inhibits SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and the university has exclusively licensed the technology to Sunshine Biopharma Inc. to take the technology forward for further development and testing.

Ivo Abraham, PhD, professor of practice in the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, details how biosimilar guidelines from the World Health Organization have changed over time and whether those changes are beneficial for biosimilars.

UArizona football alumnus and four-time Super Bowl champion Rob Gronkowski has committed $1 million to help pets fight Valley fever. The funding will allow pharmaceutical company Anivive, which has also teamed up with researchers at the UArizona Valley Fever Center for Excellence, to commercialize its Valley fever vaccine for dogs.