A new UArizona Health Sciences class is preparing students from across the university to creatively solve health care challenges using design thinking.

The Arizona Department of Health Services warns people not to use antibody testing to assess immunity and not to use it to get another dose of the vaccine if your antibody level is low or negative. ”I think one of the things we don't fully understand is exactly how many or how much antibody you need to confer protection and so I think that's sort of the next frontier of things we've got to figure out," said Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunobiologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Health Sciences experts say resilience helped many older adults overcome the “second pandemic” of social isolation.

The Master of Science in Nursing program at the UArizona College of Nursing has three pathways for students—clinical systems leadership, nursing education, and global nursing leadership.

Sana Khan, a doctoral student at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and a vaccination site volunteer, was interviewed in March about what things look like on the ground at the university's high-capacity state vaccination site and what the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic means to her.

Dr. Cecilia Rosales, associate dean of community engagement and outreach at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and leader of the MOVE-UP program, is working to distribute unused doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. “We have lots of the Janssen vaccine that is pretty close to expiring, and if we don’t get this vaccination out, we have to dispose of it, and I hate to do that,” she said.

Dr. May Khanna, an assistant professor of pharmacology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, led a group of College of Pharmacy graduates that created a small company called Cliacept. The company's mission is to develop the building blocks of a drug that can one day cure Alzheimer's.

Dr. Ricardo Correa, an endocrinologist at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, addressed rumors about people with O negative blood type having immunity to COVID-19. “There is no way that they [people with O negative blood] could be immune to COVID because blood type is not related with how the virus affects the system,” Correa said.

A new Bachelor of Science in Medicine expands opportunities for students to pursue jobs in health care, where demand for trained professionals is rising.