Health Sciences In The Media

The Biden administration released a COVID-19 preparedness plan Thursday announcing access to free tests and vaccines as well as hospital staff support and equipment in anticipation of increased disease transmission.

The U.S. is experiencing an unusually high uptick in both flu and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) infections, while COVID-19 cases continue to linger.

In 2003, a study conducted at the Yale University School of Medicine found that industry-funded studies were 3.6 times more likely to produce outcomes favorable to their sponsors. Biomedical researchers say there are greater safeguards in place today than in the past.

Public health experts fear we’re headed into yet another post-holiday COVID-19 surge, based on how numbers are trending.

William D.S. Killgore, PhD, director of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab in the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Psychiatry, is a research collaborator on a multi-university partnership led by the University of Michigan that aims to understand and predict cognitive fatigue in individuals.

A team of researchers including Jeffrey J. Pu, MD, PhD, associate professor in the College of Medicine – Tucson, tested a new therapy and reported better outcomes than current treatment regimens for patients with mantle cell lymphoma.

Dr. Pooja J. Shah, MD, clinical instructor for obstetrics and gynecology in the College of Medicine – Phoenix, was the medical reviewer for a guide of the best remedies to relieve cold and flu symptoms.

New research suggests that when people in the UK with fibromyalgia wear glasses with green lenses for four hours a day for two weeks, they need fewer painkillers.

The "Feed the Body, Feed the Mind" program is being funded through AZ Librarians Enhancing Resilience in Rural Communities, a partnership between the Arizona Library Association and the UArizona Center for Rural Health in the Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Sarrah Hannon, a doctoral candidate in pharmacology and toxicology at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, is studying hormone levels in people with Ehlers-Danlos syndromes and how they align with patients’ menstrual cycles to assess whether hormonal fluctuations are behind the higher rates of gender dysphoria in EDS populations.