A clinical trial is being conducted at the University of Arizona Health Sciences to study a personalized vaccine in combination with an FDA-approved immunotherapy drug.

Dan Derksen, associate vice president for health equity, outreach and interprofessional activities at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, said the state might have to consider measures such as the stay-at-home orders imposed this summer to protect the availability of hospital beds.

Spine surgeon Ali Baaj, MD, is the inaugural chief of spine surgery at the University of Arizona College of Medicine-Phoenix and Banner-University Medical Center Phoenix. As spine surgery chief, Dr. Baaj will build a new academic spine program at UArizona-Banner.

The debate continues over the practice of mass screening of healthy men with prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests for the early detection of prostate cancer. The article cites Richard Ablin, PhD, of the University of Arizona College of Medicine, who discovered PSA in 1970. He stressed that PSA testing was not intended for use for mass screening but rather to follow men with advanced disease.

Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson have found that people who have had COVID-19 develop long-lasting immunity. Their study appears in the journal Immunity.

Give yourself the gift of good health! The University of Arizona Health Sciences is offering an uplifting program to improve health and reduce stress.

For future nurses and pharmacists, opportunities for service learning combine community outreach with hands-on education.

Health Sciences students sharpened their skills and learned to build rapport with patients as they provided flu shots to other students.

Last month, 200,000 children across much of the country were infected with COVID-19, according to a report by the Academy of Pediatrics. While severe illness among kids appears to be rare, researchers don’t know much about the possible long-term effects. Saskia Popescu, an epidemiologist at the University of Arizona's College of Public Health, is interviewed.

Traditional healers, who once played critical roles in governance and health care in the Navajo Nation, are dwindling in number and influence, experts and community leaders say, even as a deadly coronavirus assaults the tribe. Michelle Kahn-John, a professor of nursing at the University of Arizona and secretary of the Diné Hataalii Association, is quoted. This article was first published by the syndicated Cronkite News service on 11/10/20.