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The class of chemicals known as PFAS has generated a lot of attention recently, as experts work to understand how they can affect human health.

Since they don’t break down, it allows them to travel long distances through the environment, and accumulate in our bodies. The EPA also recently put limits on the so-called "forever chemicals" in drinking water. Some Arizona communities have been dealing with PFAS in their water supplies, as well.

The Healthy Dose asked board-certified allergist Tara Carr, MD, a member of the University of Arizona Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center and an associate professor of Medicine at the College of Medicine—Tucson who sees patients at the Allergy and Immunology Clinic at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson, what people need to know about SMART therapy.

The UC Fellows Program offers university faculty members the opportunity to do scholarly work on public policy. Farland and Rainbow will study the safety of the work environment for potential childbearing female nurses and how the job setting and its demands impact their postpartum return to work.

Dr. Stephanie Carroll is Director of the Collaboratory for Indigenous Data Governance an associate professor of public health at the University of Arizona, a Native Ahtna and a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah.