Health Sciences In The Media

A recent study published in JAMA Surgey and led by researchers in the College of Medicine – Tucson's Division of Trauma, Critical Care, Burns and Emergency Surgery, concluded that 1 in 3 patients with unstable pelvic fractures die despite the availability of advanced hemorrhage control interventions.

Two new hospitals will open virtually side by side in Buckeye, Arizona's largest city geographically, sprawling across 640 square miles.

Researchers continue to learn more about the relationship between pain and the brain, and that understanding is helping local providers better serve patients.

Andrew Weil, MD, founder and director of the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson, writes about ways to improve heart health.

Researchers have created a smart 'band-aid' that uses electrical currents to heal wounds 25% faster than traditional methods by stimulating tissue to speed up recovery.

Pregnancy comes with all sorts of not-so-fun symptoms and side effects. Michelle Davis, DNP, a certified nurse-midwife and assistant professor of practice in the College of Medicine – Phoenix, is quoted.

An opinion piece in Annals of Internal Medicine states there is a need to improve the diagnosis and reporting of blastomycosis, coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) and histoplasmosis, the most prevalent endemic fungal diseases (mycoses) in North America, to better serve patients.

A 2020 study published in the European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing and led by Ruth Taylor-Piliae, PhD, RN, professor at the College of Nursing, found that among people with heart disease, those who regularly practice tai chi reported less stress, anxiety and depression and better quality of life compared with control groups.

Saskia Popescu, PhD, associate adjunct professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has been hired by the Council on Strategic Risks to examine issues from biosecurity and pandemic prevention to nuclear weapons policy and the role of diplomacy.

Arizona is one of the only areas in the country where people are typically crankier in the summer and happier in the winter, when many people have seasonal depression.