Health Sciences In The Media

Studies show that wearing color-tinted lenses has the potential to influence how humans respond to emotional events. Mohab Ibrahim, MD, PhD, medical director of the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center, is quoted.

Taking steps to demystify AI can make it accessible to patients and beneficial for clinicians. A UArizona Health Sciences study that found that Americans are split on whether they can trust AI in their health care.

Researchers at the College of Medicine – Tucson's Department of Psychiatry are using a $1.5 million grant from the United States Army Medical Research Acquisition Activity to develop a VR assessment system to study TBIs.

The UArizona Health Sciences Office of Communications won three IMPACT Awards for Excellence in Public Relations from the Southern Arizona chapter of the Public Relations Society of America.

A $10 million Environmental Protection Agency grant is funding the Western Environmental Science Technical Assistance Center for Environmental Justice, or the WEST EJ Center.

Arizona Cannabis Education, or AzCANN, is a project funded by a $1 million grant from the Arizona Department of Health Services that the Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center at UArizona Health Sciences is using to develop educational materials on the responsible use and potential risks of cannabis.

Morphine is commonly used to treat bone pain associated with metastatic cancer, but research recently published in PAIN uncovered a mechanism by which chronic morphine use may increase bone loss and pain.

Allopregnanolone, a regenerative therapeutic, has the potential to delay neurodegeneration in early Alzheimer's disease by promoting endogenous systems of renewal and repair, early clinical data show.

Toxoplasma gondii can live in just about any warm-blooded vertebrate, but it can't reproduce unless it's in its preferred home: the gut of a cat. In order to arrive at that destination, Toxo can make rodents lose their fear of felines. Some theories suggest it can also make humans more reckless. But not all scientists are convinced.

Tucson startup Ancerix is working to perfect and market new tools to help orthopedic surgeons cleanly remove stuck medical hardware like screws and rods.