Health Sciences In The Media

Vivian Kominos, MD, clinical assistant professor of medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson and fellowship faculty at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, writes that the term "widow-maker" can be harmful to patients and perpetuates the myth that heart disease is a male ailment.

William D.S. Killgore, PhD, director of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab in the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Psychiatry, has explored light as a treatment for military veterans who have had traumatic brain injuries or have post-traumatic stress disorder.

More than 17 million Canadians have had some version of Omicron, in a “tsunami” of infections over the past five months, according to a new report. Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, professor of immunobiology in the College of Medicine – Tucson, is quoted.

Researchers at the University of Arizona have formed a startup with plans to use a metal-free electrolyte to make nontoxic batteries to store large amounts of electricity.

The University of Arizona Health Sciences announced five new recipients of Innovations in Healthy Aging seed grant funding supporting research that targets diseases of aging, addresses health challenges related to optimal aging, and expands communities and activities for older adults.

In May, a COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai shut down a plant that manufactures a type of dye injected into the body to make organs and blood vessels more visible on CT scans.

In Arizona, most clinics that offered abortion services have shut down in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling.

The government has greenlit new vaccines to defend against the latest Omicron variants. But the shots won’t arrive until the fall and cases are rising now.

With the realization that healthy people have autoantibodies comes the task of developing a roadmap to better use those markers to pinpoint diseases.

In the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision overturning Roe v. Wade, rheumatologists and rheumatology associations are voicing concern over what the loss of federal abortion protections could mean for patients.