On May 14, a total of 117 medical students from the University of Arizona in Tucson officially will become physicians and earn their Doctor of Medicine degrees.

The paper, published in two medical journals last week, lays out best practice guidelines for patients in intensive care units requiring advanced life-saving therapies due to the novel coronavirus.

Medical students at the College of Medicine – Phoenix learn how to think through tough ethical issues in a series of lectures, case studies and exercises.

This University of Arizona-led breakthrough has the potential to benefit hundreds of thousands of patients whose current healing options are either partially effective or painful and invasive.

Phase 1 of the Antibody test has begun for frontline workers and some members of the general public inside a temporary clinic set up at Tucson’s Cole and Jeannie Davis Sports Center.

A test developed by UArizona Health Sciences will screen 250,000 health care workers and first responders for immunity to the novel coronavirus.

The University of Arizona will soon begin analyzing blood samples from hundreds of thousands of Arizonans to determine who has been exposed to the virus that causes COVID-19 and developed antibodies against it.

Thirteen research teams will address various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic with financial support from rapid-turnaround seed grants supplied through funding from the state and University of Arizona BIO5 Institute.