Health Sciences In The Media

An impassioned and vocal member of the Endocrine Society, Ricardo Correa, MD, EdD, talks about his research, outreach to potential Latinx endocrine scientists, the importance of addressing health disparities, and how a trip to the endocrinologist when he was a teenager changed his entire life.

“Celebrating Life & Science” is a special one-hour broadcast event highlighting inspiring stories of Arizonans working together and using science to make life better for people everywhere. Arizona Bioscience Researcher of the Year Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, department head and professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, is featured.

Public health experts say the rate of teenage vaccination can be a signpost on whether parents will get younger children vaccinated. “If we had a robust response to vaccinations in the 12 to 17 age group, I would hold a lot of hope for this new vaccination expansion,” said doctor and advocate Ruth Franks Snedecor, MD, clinical assistant professor at the College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Infectious disease experts weigh in on how they are personally dealing with the pandemic. Elizabeth Connick, MD, chief of the division of infectious diseases and professor of medicine and immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, discusses dining indoors with The Washington Post.

University of Arizona Cancer Center researchers recently found a promising method to battle cancer, slow its growth and overcome drug resistance. Noel Warfel, PhD, an associate professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson, is leading the study.

Michael Badowski, PhD, an associate research scientist at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Biorepository, writes that the response to the COVID-19 outbreak has better prepared global infrastructure for a more deadly pandemic.

New research at the University of Arizona Health Sciences found that patients undergoing active chemotherapy had a lower immune response to two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine, but a third dose increased response. "We wanted to make sure we understand the level of protection the COVID-19 vaccines are offering our cancer patients, especially as restrictions were being eased and more contagious variants were starting to spread," said Rachna Shroff, MD, MS, chief of Gastrointestinal Medical Oncology at the UArizona Cancer Center and director of the Cancer Center Clinical Trials Office.

Murtaza Akhter, MD, an emergency medicine physician at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, discusses the stress on doctors and nurses in hospitals in states hardest hit by the covid delta surge.

If you come down with COVID-19, what can you take to get over it faster and start feeling better again? The internet has lots of ideas—some good, some useless, and some dangerous for your health.

Several European nations have decided to "live with COVID-19" rather than focus largely on trying to eradicate the virus, but experts say that strategy likely would fail in the U.S. because case levels vary widely across the country and cases overall are too high right now to try. Kacey Ernst, PhD, MPH, epidemiologist at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is quoted.