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Positive communication is hugely beneficial to your relationships, your mind and your health, researchers say. The UA's Margaret Pitts and her collaborator, Thomas Socha, have organized the first collection of scholarly works devoted to positive interpersonal communication in their discipline.
While in high school, Rhiannon Miller, a UA psychology major, had the idea to train Borzois to serve as psychiatric service dogs for veterans, which led to the establishment of Operation Wolfhound. To date, more than 60 dogs have been placed with veterans across the nation – in New York, Georgia and along the West Coast as well as in Canada and England.
The ground officially has been broken for the new UA Cancer Center at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center/Dignity Health outpatient facility in downtown Phoenix. Located on the Phoenix Biomedical Campus, the center is expected open in 2015 and will offer comprehensive cancer services.
Using the Internet to make decisions about taking medications during pregnancy or breastfeeding may lead to poor choices, the Arizona Pregnancy Riskline warns. The riskline is a not-for-profit, telephone-based service at the UA College of Pharmacy with specially trained counselors who educate women and their health-care providers about potentially harmful exposures during pregnancy and breastfeeding.
Without a date this Valentine's Day? Fear not. We asked relationship expert David Sbarra, an associate professor of psychology, to offer some tips for single folks on how to survive the holiday solo. From connecting with friends and family to avoiding texting the ex, he has advice for those who may be experiencing a case of the lonelies this time of year.
UA researchers are working on an innovative technology designed to boost diabetic patients' adherence to special footwear prescribed to prevent or heal foot ulcers. Ulcers, when unchecked, can lead to amputation or death. Researchers are working with a small business partner on a sensor that will alert patients when they neglect to wear the prescribed boot.
Medicinal chemists face a multitude of hurdles trying to discover new and effective therapeutics for the treatment of disease. In the UA’s BIO5 Oro Valley facility is a team of College of Pharmacy researchers attempting to address these "speed bumps" along the path from bench to bedside by utilizing new automated technologies and fast chemical methods to increase the rate at which new hypotheses in drug discovery can be effectively evaluated.