UArizona Cancer Center, Banner – University Medicine continue state-of-the-art cancer care and cutting-edge clinical research during COVID-19 pandemic since “Cancer doesn’t sleep, so neither can we.”

An internationally recognized program at the University of Arizona is conducting health screenings and referrals by phone and online to help vulnerable communities hit hard by the pandemic.

The five Health Sciences colleges plan special ways to mark the rite-of-passage of earning a degree, despite social distancing and stay-at-home orders.

Students in the College of Medicine – Tucson designed posters and distributed them to Hispanic communities to help share public health messages in Spanish.

Students from the College of Medicine – Phoenix are helping fill a need for supplies on the Navajo Nation during the COVID-19 pandemic.

‘Fireside Chat’ with women-led committees at the Colleges of Medicine in Phoenix and Tucson helps inform Arizona U.S. senator on women in science and medicine.

Researchers from the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that inhibiting heat shock protein 90 in the spinal cord enhanced effectiveness of opioid therapy and could decrease its side effects.

The Navajo Nation has more per-capita COVID-19 infections than any place outside of New York and New Jersey. In April, its rate of infection was 10 times higher than that of Arizona, which encircles most of the Nation. “If you're having to haul water from a well many miles down a dirt road, and bring it back to water the animals, and also use it for washing and cooking and things like that, it’s really hard to wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds,” said Daniel Derksen, director of the University of Arizona’s Center for Rural Health.