May 18, 2015 Taking the Operating Room to the Patient: Mobile Surgery in Rural Ecuador On a Thursday afternoon in June, I found myself dressed in scrubs and a surgery cap, crossing a cable bridge over an expansive Amazon tributary.
Nov. 10, 2015 University of Arizona Helping Reduce State Health Gaps Every year, more than 1,500 deaths in Arizona could be avoided if all residents had an equal chance to be healthy.
May 1, 2016 Community Health: The Key to Improving Health and Wellness for all Arizonans When you’re working with a patient in the healthcare delivery system, it’s pretty straightforward. You get a medical history, talk to your patient about how they are doing and their symptoms, and learn about their lifestyle.
Sept. 27, 2016 How does vitamin D affect prostate cancer in African American men? Prostate cancer is the most commonly occurring cancer in men. However, the chance that someone will get prostate cancer depends on a lot of different factors.
Jan. 10, 2017 Good Oral Health is More than a Smile - Especially for Pregnant Women Good oral health is more than just a nice smile. Having good oral health improves a person’s ability to speak, smile, smell, taste, touch, chew and eat.
Feb. 27, 2017 Call Me: Using a Familiar Technology to Care for Cancer Patients at Home Caring for a loved one with a cancer diagnosis can influence every aspect of a family's quality of life.
April 15, 2017 Since You Can't Select Your Family, Choose a Risk-reducing Lifestyle As an African American woman, I am aware that I’m in one of the highest-risk groups for dying from heart disease but my non-inherited risk factors are manageable.
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.
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.
Feb. 11, 2020 Helping Your Doctor Overcome Medical Bias of Minority Patients Very few physicians or patients enter an exam or hospital room with the intent of racially alienating the other person in the room, but research demonstrates that minority populations, particularly African American and Hispanic patients, receive unequal c