For Frank Moreno, MD, professor of psychiatry at the College of Medicine – Tucson, migrants have levels of stress and depression associated with their condition that reflect other social factors, conditions he assures are conducive to developing other types of health problems such as "headaches, ulcers, high blood pressure, problems regulating blood sugar, all chronic diseases are complicated by stress."

Chronic stress among the elderly can make the problem worse, says Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. She says that elderly stress caused by everything from loneliness to finances to poor health can make mental decline worse.

A UArizona Health Sciences-led study identified poor childhood nutrition and growth as risk factors for lung disease and weaker health as an adult.

John Galgiani, MD, director of the UArizona Valley Fever Center for Excellence, estimated a vaccine would cost $200 million to fully develop. Dr. Galgiani is currently testing a vaccine that will be used in dogs and hopes to deploy to veterinarians by 2023.

A new center will advance addiction research through collaboration with faculty interested in studying substance use disorders.

Conducting academic research can sometimes improve a medical school applicant's chances of admission, but research experience does not automatically lead to acceptance, according to physicians and medical school officials. Alex G. Little, MD, a clinical professor of surgery at the College of Medicine – Tucson, is quoted.

COVID-19 caseloads in Arizona are falling precipitously after reaching record highs last month, but experts say the state’s Omicron surge is not yet over. Joe Gerald, MD, PhD, associate professor of public health policy at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is quoted.

A $6.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help build the Center of Excellence for Addiction Studies to advance addiction research.

Medical school students at the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix attend a celebration of appreciation for their cadaver and before that, they get creative with the school's Art in Medicine program. First year medical student Gillian Reynoso and local artist Monica Aissa Martinez discuss the connection between art, the humanities and medicine.