Health Sciences In The Media

Aidan Pettit-Miller, an undergraduate student in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, started an initiative to install Narcan kits inside all of the fraternity houses on the UArizona main campus in Tucson.

A series of articles explored chronic pain, the challenges of treatment and the scientific advances offering hope for the future.

UArizona Health Sciences researchers received $7.3 million in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to participate in “Tracking the Burden, Distribution, Impact of Post COVID-19 Conditions in Diverse Populations for Children, Adolescents, Adults,” or Track PCC.

The Health Sciences Education Building, home to the College of Medicine – Phoenix, is featured as a signature building at the Phoenix Bioscience Core.

Researchers at the UArizona Arthritis Center are undertaking a study that seeks to identify determinants of rapid knee deterioration thanks to a $3.4 million grant from the National Institutes of Health.

With a five-year $570,000 grant from the National Library of Medicine, a team of UArizona professors is creating the Place-based, culturally responsive Health Informatics Research Education, or PHIRE, program.

A lack of doctors entering infectious disease fellowships – and the ensuing shortage of these specialists – has been a concern for years, with experts pointing to the comparatively low earnings these physicians make as a major disincentive for doctors considering which field to enter.

Asking knee osteoarthritis patients a simple question – do you have difficulty climbing stairs? – may predict the risk of future functional limitation, according to research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Rheumatology.

Researchers have finally figured out what triggers hot flashes during menopause, paving the way for the first new class of treatments since 1941.

Arizona fire stations are getting state-funded help in 2023 to eliminate firefighting foam that’s been linked to cancer.