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Medical Students to Learn Their Future at Match Day
On Thursday, UA medical students will receive letters showing where they will be doing their residency training.
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UA Campus Health Offers Online Personal Trainer
Live Fit works just as a personal trainer or nutritionist would, providing UA students, faculty and staff with customized information based on an individual's personal health-related desires and needs.
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New Nanobioscience Center Targets Personalized Medicine
Researchers at the center will work to create new ways to diagnose disease, monitor health and build equipment by merging new technologies.
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UA Professor Joins Group Studying Foodborne Diseases
John Ehiri, a professor in the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has joined the World Health Organization's advisory group in charge of studying foodborne diseases.
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UA Faculty Author Book on Uninsured Americans
A group of UA faculty members and those practicing at the Arizona Health Sciences Center have contributed to a new book about uninsured Americans in the United States, what problems they face and what resources are available to them.
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Babies and Sleep: Another Reason to Love Naps
UA psychologists have found that infants need adequate sleep, including regular naps, in order to effectively learn about the new world they reside.
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Talk Deeply, Be Happy?
New York Times | Would you be happier if you spent more time discussing the state of the world and the meaning of life – and less time talking about the weather? People who spend more of their day having deep discussions and less time engaging in small talk seem to be happier, said UA psychologist Matthias Mehl, a psychologist, who published a study on the subject. -
$187M Health Sciences Building Closing in on Reality Phoenix Business Journal | The Arizona Board of Regents may be a step closer to building the $187 million Health Sciences Education Building on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus.
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Skin Cancer Outnumbers Other Cancers Combined KVOA-TV | Dr. Clara Curiel, assistant professor of dermotology and member of the Arizona Cancer Center, agrees with a new study that calls for the teatment of skin cancer as a chronic disease and as an under recognized epidemic.
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How to Survive Spring Allergy Season WebMD | For a lot of folks, it's allergy season, with stuffy heads, runny noses, sore throats, itching eyes, plus coughing and sneezing. UA allergy expert Dr. Paul Enright and others offer advice on what to take to make you feel better.
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Sticky Situation Inspires a Cleaner Remote Control Seattle Times | A peanut butter-encrusted TV remote led an inventor to create a television remote that is less likely to collect samples from the kitchen. UA scientists tested the ubiquitous household device and found it contained less bacteria than a regular remote before being wiped clean and less after being cleaned.
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Weeds in Full Bloom Thanks to Rainy Winter Arizona Republic | A wetter than normal winter has given Arizonans a bumper crop of less than desirable visitors to lawns and gardens. In addition to people's allergies that weeds often aggravate, UA extension biologist Ed Northam said the problem is more serious.
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The War on Soda: The Health Case for it Philadelphia Daily News | Citing a recent UA study showing that a child would have to watch 10 hours of TV before seeing one ad for a nutritional food or drink, Amy Jordan of Penn State's Annenberg Public Policy Center takes a look at food marketing to children.
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Medical Students to Learn Their Future at Match DayUANews | On Thursday, UA medical students will receive letters showing where they will be doing their residency training.
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UA Campus Health Offers Online Personal TrainerUANews | Live Fit works just as a personal trainer or nutritionist would, providing UA students, faculty and staff with customized information based on an individual's personal health-related desires and needs.
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The Great Prostate Mistake New York Times | Richard J. Ablin, a research professor in the UA's College of Medicine, writes about the challenges faced by those with prostate cancer and complexities with screening and testing.
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AZ Researchers Get $1.5M to Study Vitamin D Effect on Cancer KNXV-TV | A $1.5 million grant will enable researchers at the Arizona Cancer Center to study the relationship between vitamin D and colon cancer.
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Careful: It's Rattlesnake Time Again! Arizona Daily Star | With one bite already reported, Mark Murphy of UA's Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center and other experts offer tips on how to avoid getting bitten and what to do in the event of a bite.
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New Nanobioscience Center Targets Personalized MedicineUANews | Researchers at the center will work to create new ways to diagnose disease, monitor health and build equipment by merging new technologies.
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Physician Promotes Treatment Focusing on Mind-body Connection
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Read, Then Discuss: Happy People Cut the Chit-chat Washington Post | Add to the long list of factors that may affect your overall happiness and well-being: Your ratio of idle chatter to deep and meaningful conversation. Matthias Mehl's study in the March issue of Psychological Science shows that folks who tend to engage in substantial conversations more than in shallow chatter also tend to be happier than those whose talk is mostly light and breezy.
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UMC, UPH in Talks to Combine Into Single Company Arizona Daily Star | University Medical Center Corp. and University Physicians Healthcare are planning to merge into a single nonprofit company later this year. Dr. William M. Crist, UA's vice president for health affairs, said the merger would enable more collaboration, improved service, more jobs and further developments in the UA College of Medicine.
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UA Professor Joins Group Studying Foodborne DiseasesUANews | John Ehiri, a professor in the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has joined the World Health Organization's advisory group in charge of studying foodborne diseases.
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Unhappy? Maybe It's Too Much Small Talk CNN | Small talk is part of everyday life, but the substantial, meaningful conversations are what may make you happy. That's one possibility suggested in a new study by UA psychologist Matthias Mehl examining how conversation connects to happiness.
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UA Arizona Nutrition Network Receives Tucson Parks and Recreation Commissioner AwardUANews | The Arizona Nutrition Network at the UA was honored for his work with Tucson Parks and Recreation.
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Food Ills Spur Calls for More U.S. Oversight Arizona Republic | Keith Boesen, managing director of the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center at the UA, said it is not possible to completely eliminate instances of food poisoning, but that instances in the U.S. are low.
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Dr. Marvin Slepian Gives Keynote Speech Business Wire | Dr. Marvin Slepian, a world-renowned interventional cardiologist and UA clinical professor of medicine, co-founded SynCardia Systems, Inc., which manufacturers artificial hearts.
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The Buzz on Mosquitoes, Metropolises in Southern ArizonaUANews | UA researchers are heading up a project incorporating entomology and ethnology with high resolution remote sensing and insect modeling to understand the likes and wants of mosquitoes to better understand ways to control the insect population.
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UA Faculty Author Book on Uninsured AmericansUANews | A group of UA faculty members and those practicing at the Arizona Health Sciences Center have contributed to a new book about uninsured Americans in the United States, what problems they face and what resources are available to them.
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American Diabetes Association Honors UA PhysicianUANews | Dr. David G. Armstrong, a UA professor of surgery and director of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance, has been named the 2010 Roger Pecoraro award winner and lecturer by the American Diabetes Association.
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What's in Household Dust? Don't Ask Time | A new study by David Layton and Paloma Beamer, professors of environmental policy at the UA, finds that the composition of household dust could include anything from food debris to arsenic.