Health Sciences In The Media

How much dust do children swallow? Researchers at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will try to answer that question as part of the Dust Ingestion Children Study, a national project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency.

Experts say unrelenting developments are taking a toll on our mental and physical health and how we interact as a society with the targeting of churches and schools as distressing to many people who have long regarded them as safe spaces.

Humans could lose up to two weeks of sleep a year by the end of the century, study finds.

Jennifer Whitehair, MD, an associate clinical assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, received the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Outstanding American Indian/Alaska Native Women’s Healthcare Clinician Award.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, professor of epidemiology in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, head of the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Immunobiology, are quoted in an article about long COVID.

A review by researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences concluded (with the caveat that there's much more research to be done) that terpenes may be highly effective in developing pain medications, especially because they are safer than traditional painkillers.

Suicide attempts among preteens are on the rise nationwide and in southern Arizona. Steven Dudley, PharmD, DABAT, director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, said his office has noticed an increase in intentional overdoses that spiked during the pandemic.

Scientists are keeping an eye on monkeypox, a viral disease related to smallpox that has recently been found spreading in North America, Europe and Australia.

Kent Kwoh, MD, chief of the division of rheumatology at the College of Medicine - Tucson and director of the UArizona Arthritis Center, authors an article in La Estrella de Tucson that shares information and answers common questions about osteoarthritis.

Arizona is seeing a spike in flu cases this spring, which could leave some major pharmacies in the state running low on medication.