Health Sciences In The Media

The Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation is launching SAAF Health, the region’s first LGBTQ-affirming and dedicated health center.

According to advocates, social media platforms have been a boon in terms of access for everyone who is unable to attend academic or medical meetings, whether they are busy clinicians and researchers, or patients chronically ill with conditions such as fibromyalgia or rheumatoid arthritis.

Health advisers on Friday unanimously backed the full approval of a closely watched Alzheimer's drug, a key step toward opening insurance coverage to U.S. seniors with early stages of the brain-robbing disease.

The Cottonwood Public Library received a grant from the American Library Association, in conjunction with the Center for Rural Health in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, to start the Get Out program, which promotes outdoor activities for teens.

An opinion piece weighs in on the long-term threat to public health from long COVID that lingers after the federal public health emergency has lifted.

The list ranks the University of Arizona No. 4 in the world for holistic health, noting offerings including the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson.

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

Arizona's estimated rate of melanoma cases is well above the national average, according to the American Cancer Society; but underreporting over the past two decades makes it difficult to know whether skin cancer rates have worsened in recent years.

The makers of an app called Sleep Reset claim it can help you get more, and better, sleep without the use of drugs — and they have the study to prove it.

A man in Australia recently escaped from the reptilian jaws of death after a crocodile clamped down on his head. Crocodiles are well known for their vice-like jaws.