Innovations in Healthy Aging, is a collaboration across campus to enhance the lives of older adults through integration, partnerships, research and education. Kathleen Insel, PhD, RN, a professor at the UArizona College of Nursing, said they are finding aging isn’t a period of decline but a positive experience.

In December, the FDA authorized Evusheld, a monoclonal antibody combination designed to prevent COVID-19 in people who are seriously immunocompromised or who have had serious adverse reactions to COVID-19 vaccines. Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine –Tucson, is interviewed.

Rubin Naiman, PhD, a clinical assistant professor of medicine and dream expert at the UArizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine, says dreaming is healing. It’s kind of a "digestive process” — taking difficult experiences, like a breakup, and spelling them out to provide understanding.

Continuing coverage: Mohab Ibrahim, MD, PhD, medical director of the UArizona Health Sciences Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center, said he is seeing mostly diffuse muscle and joint pain. Less common pain complaints have included headache and neuropathic pain.

Agnes Attakai, MPA, director of Health Disparities Outreach and Prevention Education at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, will speak at Health Affairs’s Racism & Health Virtual Symposium on Feb. 8.

With the resurgence in COVID-19 cases across the U.S., some states and hospitals are implementing a limit to or postponement of nonessential and elective surgeries. Michael McKee, MD, orthopedic surgeon at Banner University Medical Center and professor and chair of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, is quoted.

COVID-19 infections due to the Omicron variant are slowing nationwide, but some states are still seeing high rates of hospitalizations, like Arizona. Frank LoVecchio, DO, MPH, a professor and emergency medicine physician from the College of Medicine – Phoenix, shares his experience working in the ER in Phoenix.

UArizona Health Sciences expert Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, discusses the omicron variant, COVID-19 vaccines and the best ways to stay healthy and safe.

Daniel Derksen, MD, professor of public health and director of the University of the UArizona Center for Rural Health, has been appointed to the New College of Health Solutions advisory board, a group of health leaders assembled to help the college better understand health workforce issues and the needs of Arizona’s diverse communities.