Health Sciences In The Media

Arizona scientists have hit a key milestone: They have sequenced over 100,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes statewide since the start of the pandemic.

Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are using a $6.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study azithromycin therapy in preschoolers who are diagnosed with severe wheezing episodes at hospital emergency departments.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it was limiting the authorized use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for adults due to studies showing people developing life-threatening blood clots.

Lisa Quale, BS, the senior health educator at the University of Arizona Cancer Center’s Skin Cancer Institute, shares the best ways to protect your skin and the consequences of not protecting it.

Rates of hospitalization and major amputations among racial and ethnic minority adults with diabetic foot ulcers decreased in states that adopted Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences.

Each year, a small number of people mistakenly eat poisonous mushrooms and suffer the consequences.

It is well established that older adults are more susceptible to infection and their immune systems less capable of generating a strong immune response. A University of Arizona Health Sciences-led paper explains why, which could lead to potential interventions.

Vaccines and immunity from prior infection are helping to create a “mosaic of immunity" against COVID-19, according to some experts.

New research by University of Arizona neuroscientists suggests that a gene commonly associated with Parkinson's may be behind vocal-related issues—a finding that could help lead to earlier diagnoses and treatments for Parkinson's patients.

We hide in the bathroom to get five minutes away from our kids and a minute away from our partner. Which got us thinking, is taking the phone into the bathroom a filthy habit?