Health Sciences In The Media

The Huachuca City Public Library is using a $4,000 grant from the Arizona Center for Rural Health in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health to support its local diaper bank.

UArizona announced the public phase of its $3 billion fundraising campaign, Fuel Wonder. The story cites philanthropy that led to the naming of the R. Ken Coit College of Pharamacy and donor investments in the Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies and the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine.

The College of Medicine – Phoenix was named as a recipient of a 2023 INSIGHT Into Diversity Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award.

Valley fever, which traditionally afflicts patients in Arizona and California, has started spreading eastward.

The popular medications Ozempic and Wegovy cause dramatic weight loss. Both contain a compound, semaglutide, that squelches hunger by mimicking a hormone called GLP-1 that our bodies naturally make when we eat. 

A study co-authored by Jason P. Patel, MD, a resident in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, examines the repercussions of climate change on nephrology and explores strategies to mitigate its impact.

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.