Health Sciences In The Media

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.

Singer-songwriter Nick Jonas recently posted a short video to raise awareness of early signs of diabetes for World Diabetes Day – it’s a chronic condition he’s lived with since his teens.

A blog reviewing the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists PharmSci 360 Meeting 2022 includes an interview with Patrick T. Ronaldson, PhD, professor of pharmacology in the College of Medicine – Tucson.

An interview with the vice president of preconstruction for Kitchell Contractors mentions the UArizona Health Sciences Innovations Building project.

Amazon has launched a new healthcare service called Amazon Clinic.

The goals for UArizona President Robert C. Robbins, MD, include securing funding for the UArizona Health Sciences Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies and working with Arizona State University and Northern Arizona University to expand research at the College of Medicine – Phoenix.

With flu cases in Arizona significantly above the state's five-year average, there is concern for people from racial and ethnic groups with lower flu vaccination rates and higher flu hospitalization rates, including Latinos, African Americans and Native Americans.

Pamela S. Smith, MD, clinical assistant professor in the College of Medicine – Phoenix, is one of three alumni to be inducted into the distinguished alumni Hall of Fame at Conrad Weiser High School.

The UArizona Health Sciences Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies, or CAMI, received its first private philanthropic support as part of a new $10 million gift from the Steele Foundation.

A new study has linked APOE4 with faulty cholesterol processing in the brain, which in turn leads to defects in the insulating sheaths that surround nerve fibers and facilitate their electrical activity, changes that could cause memory and learning deficits.