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Tipoffs for Tucson, Arizona (City) Newsletter for Tuesday June 11, 2024 ( 3 items )  

House Budget Committee Issues Testimony From Families USA Senior Director Tripoli (Part 1 of 2)
WASHINGTON, June 10 -- The House Budget Committee released the following testimony by Sophia Tripoli, senior diector of health policy at Families USA, from a hearing dated May 23, 2024, entitled "Breaking Up Health Care Monopolies: Examining the Budgetary Effects of Health Care Consolidation": * * * Chairman Arrington, Ranking Member Boyle, members of the Committee, thank you for the opportunity to testify at this critical hearing focused on the budgetary effects of health care consolidation a  more

Studying Arctic Glaciers With Airborne Radar: UArizona Project Attracts $30M From NASA
TUCSON, Arizona, June 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: A University of Arizona-led project that uses advanced airborne radar mounted to low-flying aircraft to study arctic glaciers is one of six new missions that have received funding by NASA. Dubbed Snow4Flow, the mission is led by Jack Holt, a professor in the UArizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory and the Department of Geosciences. It is one of only two missions, selected from 42 proposals, to be  more

University of Arizona-Health Sciences: Study Shows First Evidence of Sex Differences in How Pain Can Be Produced
TUCSON, Arizona, June 11 (TNSres) -- The University of Arizona's Health Sciences issued the following news release: * * * New research from the Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction identified functional differences between males and females in the nerve cells that produce pain, which could lead to new precision medicine treatments for chronic pain. * * * Research suggests that males and females differ in their experience of pain, but up until now, no one knew why. In a recent study publ  more