Health Sciences In The Media

AcademyHealth announced four new leaders to its 2024 Board of Directors, including Ricardo Correa, MD, director of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship Program in the College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Nonprofit Hyundai Hope on Wheels gave the Hope Scholar Award to Emmanuel Katsanis, MD, professor of pediatrics at the College of Medicine – Tucson, who will use the award's $400,000 grant to research treatments for childhood leukemia and other blood-related cancers.

Experts including Steven Dudley, PharmD, director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center, discuss the health benefits of CBD products, as well as the possibility they could trigger false positive drug tests.

The Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center at the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy partnered with the Arizona Department of Health Services and Blackbox Healthcare Solutions to launch the Arizona Resource Equity and Access Coordination Hub, a program aimed at enhancing equitable access to care for rural communities.

Experts identify the germiest places at the airport. Kelly Reynolds, PhD, MSPH, professor and chair of the Department of Community, Environment and Policy in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is quoted.

College of Medicine – Phoenix student Kennedy Sparling, who aspires to be a pediatric dermatologist, writes about how her experiences with atopic dermatitis and keratosis pilaris inspired her career choice.

Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, is interviewed about updated versions of the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines, formulated to help people fight off the new omicron subvariant of COVID-19.

Researchers at the UArizona Cancer Center discovered a new class of iron-targeting compounds that hamper the proliferation of cultured malignant cells in a laboratory setting. The results of the study were published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.

A new National Institutes of Health study provides an expanded working definition of long COVID. UArizona Health Sciences researchers lead one of 15 adult cohorts that contributed to the research.

While cases of COVID-related severe illness and hospitalization remain low, infection counts are spiking again. Medical experts discuss precautions they continue to take to avoid infections.