Health Sciences In The Media

The population of older adults continues to increase in the United States and in Arizona. The University of Arizona Health Sciences just launched a graduate program to learn more about this growing demographic.

As the temperature throughout Arizona begins to tick upwards this time of year, so too comes the return of venomous snakes, spiders, and scorpions. Thankfully with modern medicine, fatalities from reptile bites are extremely rare. According to the UArizona Poison and Drug Information Center, the recent death rate has dropped to less than 1%.

The addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy, with or without bevacizumab, in women with persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer was linked with better quality of life, reported Bradley J. Monk, MD, FACS, FACOG, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the College of Medicine – Phoenix.

People living in economically distressed parts of Pima County, as well as those in rural areas and tribal lands throughout southern Arizona, are experiencing greater health challenges due to the pandemic. Students and faculty at the College of Medicine – Tucson are quoted.

Michael Grandner, PhD, director of the Sleep and Health Research Program at the College of Medicine – Tucson, recommends against lying in bed for more than 15 to 20 minutes because it will train the brain to associate bed with a lack of sleep, which can lead to chronic insomnia.

Evan S. Lederman, MD, clinical professor of orthopedics in the College of Medicine – Phoenix, authored an opinion column weighing the relative merits of total anatomic shoulder arthroplasty versus reverse shoulder arthroplasty.

If combatting free radicals and oxidative stress while striking redox balance and homeostasis in the body were a sport, glutathione would be the reigning champion across all divisions. Lise Alschuler, ND, FABNO, associate director of the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the UArizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, is quoted.

New research offers hope for stopping the spread of triple-negative breast cancer. Pavani Chalasani, MD, MPH, an associate professor of medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson who was not involved in the research, commented on the study.

The University of Arizona and UArizona Health Sciences has announced the completion of a $23 million fundraising effort to build a new home for the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, part of the College of Medicine – Tucson. The 30,000-square-foot facility will be located on the UArizona Health Sciences campus at 1231 N. Cherry Ave. Construction is expected to begin mid-May and be completed in fall 2023.

The Arizona Republic looks back on 15 pivotal moments during the last two years of Arizona's COVID-19 pandemic. Joe Gerald, MD, PhD, associate professor at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, says health experts advocated for Arizona to do more to contain the spread of COVID-19 throughout the pandemic.