UArizona Nursing Volunteers Create Guide for Homemade Face Masks to Address Shortage in Response to COVID-19 Pandemic April 7, 2020 Community-minded University of Arizona faculty and staff members are aiding an effort to address the face mask shortage that has challenged health care workers across the country because of high demand for personal protective equipment. Read more Image
UArizona Medical Students Rally to Help Tucson’s Homeless Amid Pandemic April 7, 2020 Concerned about how the pandemic will impact the homeless population, University of Arizona Health Sciences students are screening Tucson’s homeless for symptoms of COVID-19. Read more Image
Health Sciences and College of Engineering Team Up to 3D Print Medical Masks April 7, 2020 Sleep and critical care expert Sairam Parthasarathy, MD, is uniquely positioned to help engineers design and test 3D-printed medical masks. Read more Image
Why you're doing less but sleeping more during the coronavirus pandemic April 7, 2020 Sleep experts say many people are experiencing deep vivid, memorable and realistic dreams during the COVID-19 pandemic. "Dreams are our brains' processing and organizing and integrating and making sense of things. We're dumped in this new environment and we're trying to figure out our place in it," said Michael Grandner, director the Sleep and Health Research Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Business Insider
States call on new graduates, retired medical staff to help fight coronavirus April 7, 2020 Medical students just starting out in the business also have been jumping in. The University of Arizona and several other schools have let their fourth-year medical students apply for early graduation. “They could be a big help, you could unleash up to 200 newly meted physicians to go out on the frontlines and help,” University of Arizona President Dr. Robert Robbins said. Fox News
Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Jonathan Holmes Appointed UArizona Chair of Ophthalmology April 6, 2020 Jonathan M. Holmes, MD, a pediatric eye care and an alignment specialist, has been named the chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. Read more Image
Is COVID-19 Keeping You at Home? Turn Your Place Into a Healing Space April 6, 2020 The way you lay out your physical environment can reduce stress and create calm, says a University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher. Read more Image
UArizona Health Sciences Connects Arizona’s Makerspaces in COVID-19 Response April 3, 2020 A network formed to support the University of Arizona Health Sciences Design Program proves invaluable in uniting the state’s makerspaces – collaborative workspaces with a variety of high- and low-technology tools for making, learning, exploring and sharing. Read more Image
UArizona Health Sciences Ships COVID-19 Collection Kits to Navajo Nation April 3, 2020 The University of Arizona Health Sciences ships 250 COVID-19 sample collection kits to Navajo Nation in Window Rock, Arizona, today. Read more Image