Week after week, my peers and I witness the countless inequities that people experiencing homelessness at each of our Street Medicine Phoenix service events face every day. Through street outreach, our goal is to meet the unmet health...
Of all the ways that our world has changed in recent years, perhaps no one aspect of our lives has changed more than our relationship with technology. You already know this. You’ve read a similar statement hundreds of...
The treatment of intervertebral disc herniations vary widely, from conservative to invasive modalities. A common surgical procedure that is performed to manage this pathology is a microdiscectomy, where the extruded disc material is removed. In the lumbar spine...
Mass casualty incidents (MCIs) such as shootings, infrastructure collapses, or bombings can quickly overwhelm emergency medical resources with gravely injured victims. This has highlighted the importance of training the public in basic medicine so that bystanders can provide...
In our current age of medicine, we often tout the benefits of evidence-based medicine for our patients: better outcomes with fewer unneeded interventions. However, even the name of this approach depends upon the nature of the evidence, which...
CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeat)/Cas9 is a gene editing technique that utilizes a viral vector to insert segments of viral DNA to provide a template for RNA molecules that can be programmed to identify, disable, and...
The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix recently celebrated its 10th anniversary and with its 7th Match Day around the corner, the college has successfully graduated 273 physicians. As outstanding of an accomplishment that is, it...
A few years ago, the concept of nanoscience would have seemed so fictional that Steven Spielberg would have done an outstanding job curating it into a movie. Today, nanotechnology is making its way into clinical practice and soon...
Every year, more than one million knee replacement surgeries are done in the United States, and approximately one to two percent of these procedures are followed by infections. These infections are linked to the formation of biofilm–a microbial-derived...
Approximately 9% of men and 24% of women will experience migraine headache. The 2010 Global Burden of Disease Survey lists migraine as the 7th highest cause of disability. Those affected with the condition can experience a significantly decreased...
Arnold-Chiari malformations describe a cluster of congenital neurologic defects characterized by the downward displacement of cerebellar tonsils through the foramen magnum. Tonsillar herniation can lead to serious neurologic sequelae by obstruction of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF). In Chiari malformation...
# Trends in vaccine hesitancy in the United States have led to the resurgence of several infectious diseases, including measles, mumps, and pertussis. Arizona’s regulation of nonmedical exemptions (NMEs) is relatively lenient compared to that of other states,...
Welcome to our very first edition of This Month in Science (TMIS). Each month, we will feature recently published research with interviews of our Phoenix faculty for their opinions and explanations. This month, we interviewed Dr. Mark Haussler,...
Arizona has the fortune and misfortune of being a sunny state for a significant part of the year, and the hot season is just around the corner! While the relative warmth during the fall and winter makes many...
In the United States today, there are an estimated 30 million people living with some type of disability. While some assistive living devices, like wheelchairs and walkers, have a large market presence, traditional manufacturing methods have prevented devices...
ACROSS THE UNITED STATES-MEXICO BORDER: LESSONS LEARNED FROM A TRANSCULTURAL PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ORIGINAL RESEARCH ARTICLE: Frontiers in Public Health, 22 June 2015 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2015.00159 Paula Aristizabal, Spencer Fuller, Rebeca Rivera, David Beyda, Raul C....
