Aug. 21, 2017 NURSE-ing Your Brain to Protect it From Stress As the new semester begins, there is much excitement and anticipation—and often much stress.
Jan. 12, 2018 A Matter of Choices: 3 Easy-to-Swallow Tips for Changing Your Cancer Risk Through Dietary Choices Cancer is expected to exceed cardiovascular disease as the leading cause of death in Arizona within the next 20 years.
Jan. 23, 2018 Socioeconomic Conditions, Environment and Lifestyle Affect Severity of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome Precision medicine uses data on an individual's person’s diet, exercise routine, family history, environment, genetics, and more to tailor treatment and prevention of certain conditions to that person’s unique characteristics.
April 4, 2018 Head and Neck Cancer: An Emerging Men’s Health Epidemic Historically, the most important risk factors for head and neck cancer — which can strike anywhere from the lips to the larynx, and up into the sinuses and nasal cavity — consisted of alcohol use, tobacco use (including smokeless tobacco), poor oral hygie
May 1, 2018 The All of Us Research Program – Powering the Future of Precision Medicine There is power in numbers. When a researcher is studying the causes of a human disease, the more people involved in the study, the greater the probability that the study will generate useful results.
July 16, 2018 Advances in Asthma Genetics Will Help Patients Breathe Easier Most commonly, asthma manifests itself as having difficulty breathing, accompanied by any number of other symptoms, including, chest pain or tightness, anxiety, fast heart rate, cough, throat irritation and/or wheezing.
Oct. 2, 2018 Danger in the Dust: Valley Fever Coccidioidomycosis, or “cocci” for short, is the medical term for Valley fever, an infectious disease that affects thousands of people in Arizona every year.
Oct. 22, 2018 Human Papillomavirus is Not a Defeated Virus What lacks a brain but has the ability to swiftly avoid setting off our body’s intruder detectors, bringing its own blueprints into our cells to make more of itself, and in some cases, cause cancer? Human papillomavirus.
Jan. 15, 2019 Your Sight Matters: Finding a Cure for Macular Degeneration Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is the most common cause of blindness in individuals over age 55 in developed nations and more than 10 million people in the United States have AMD, according to the Foundation Fighting Blindness.
April 9, 2019 A Doctor's Perspective on Autism As of 2018, autism spectrum disorder (ASD) affects one in 59 births in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. People with ASD have difficulty with social communication and interaction, restricted interests, an