Faculty close to the Primary Care Physician Scholarship Program find the effort inspiring as it helps fill clinical gaps in underserved areas of Arizona.

The Food and Drug Administration is considering a major shift in the nation's COVID-19 vaccine strategy. The goal is to simplify vaccination against COVID and perhaps adopt an approach similar that used for the flu vaccine, with annual updates to match whatever strain of the virus is circulating.

Newly appointed state health director Theresa Cullen, MD, clinical associate professor in the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Family and Community Medicine, must go through a Senate confirmation process to make her appointment official, although nominees may serve in their posts for up to a year before they need to be confirmed.

If you struggle to fall asleep at night, researchers have found that adopting (or avoiding) certain hour-before-bed activities really can make a difference.

Rachna Shroff, MD, MS, associate professor in the College of Medicine – Tucson and UArizona Cancer Center member, led the first randomized phase 3 clinical trial to be conducted in the U.S. in biliary tract cancers.

Under the shadow of increasing viral threats, researchers at the Aegis Consortium are working to create a pandemic-free future.

A new smart bandage developed by researchers in the College of Medicine – Tucson presents a potential novel solution for improving chronic wound healing.

Individuals who used hearing aids and cochlear implants for hearing loss had a decreased risk of cognitive decline, according to a new meta-analysis published online Dec. 5 in JAMA Neurology.

Over the course of the pandemic, the coronavirus has evolved multiple times, generating new variants and subvariants. However, a process called "immune imprinting" may have limited people's immune systems from keeping up with newer variants over time, as well as the effectiveness of updated COVID-19 vaccines.

Aimee Kaempf, MD, clinical associate professor of psychiatry in the College of Medicine – Tucson, co-authored an article about how changes to abortion law will affect both patients and providers.