Health Sciences In The Media

If you struggle to fall asleep at night, researchers have found that adopting (or avoiding) certain hour-before-bed activities really can make a difference.

Rachna Shroff, MD, MS, associate professor in the College of Medicine – Tucson and UArizona Cancer Center member, led the first randomized phase 3 clinical trial to be conducted in the U.S. in biliary tract cancers.

Individuals who used hearing aids and cochlear implants for hearing loss had a decreased risk of cognitive decline, according to a new meta-analysis published online Dec. 5 in JAMA Neurology.

Aimee Kaempf, MD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry in the College of Medicine – Tucson, co-authored an article about how changes to abortion law will affect both patients and providers.

Over the course of the pandemic, the coronavirus has evolved multiple times, generating new variants and subvariants. However, a process called "immune imprinting" may have limited people's immune systems from keeping up with newer variants over time, as well as the effectiveness of updated COVID-19 vaccines.

A group of UArizona investigators led by Arthur F. Gmitro, PhD, professor in the Department of Medical Imaging at the College of Medicine – Tucson, has developed a multispectral confocal endomicroscope with a sub-millimeter diameter probe that can fit through the lumen of a 20-gauge introducer needle to image the tissue at the distal tip of the needle.

The Translational Cardiovascular Research Center at the College of Medicine – Phoenix is contributing to an interdisciplinary research team studying how deficiency in dietary choline adversely affects the body and may be a missing piece in the puzzle of Alzheimer's disease.

Andrew Weil, MD, founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson, writes that a gluten-free diet is critical for people with celiac disease and might benefit those who believe they have nonceliac gluten sensitivity, but there’s no reason to shun gluten otherwise.

Psilocybin may reduce the fear of death among cancer patients while also reducing the severity of certain mental health conditions like OCD.

Detoxification pathways are important not only to buffer against environmental factors, toxins and stressors, but also to help achieve homeostatic antioxidant-versus-oxidant balance in the body on a daily basis.