Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey's ban on mask mandates takes effect at the end of September. The school year begins for districts across the state next week. According to researchers in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, coronavirus cases in people under the age of 15 have been consistently higher than those over the age of 65 since the end of March. Those numbers have also climbed dramatically since the beginning of July.

Data from a University of Arizona Health Sciences longitudinal study on COVID-19 shows that 67% of people with mild or moderate COVID-19 infection develop long COVID, with symptoms that last more than 30 days after a positive test.

A review by researchers from the College of Medicine – Phoenix finds Arizonans experience five times as many encounters with scorpions as residents of any other state. The team tabulated 57,168 reported scorpion encounters statewide between 2010 and 2015, compared to just 9,695 cases in second-place Texas.

Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, an immunologist and professor of medicine at the College of Medicine – Tucson, said recent findings from the CDC that vaccinated people who are infected with the delta variant could spread the virus just as easily as unvaccinated individuals should prompt behavioral changes across the board. “What we do not know at this point is whether the virus produced in vaccinated people is still at the same level of infectivity, or whether the presence of antibodies in these people may make the virus less infectious,” he said. “Until we learn about that, the delta variant behavior should mandate a change in strategies and approaches.”

The UArizona Center for Rural Health has received a five-year, multi-million dollar grant from state and federal sources to continue their mission of providing health care, education, technical assistance, data analyses and more to rural communities throughout the state.

A new clinical trial will assess the impact of inspiratory muscle training on blood pressure in adults with obstructive sleep apnea and hypertension.

When Dr. Taylor Riall was diagnosed with lung cancer, navigating her diagnosis became a pivot point in her life.

UArizona Health Sciences International is expanding access to education to support the next generation of health care professionals – wherever they have an internet connection.

As concerns grow over the highly contagious delta variant of the coronavirus, Germany on Monday became the largest Western country yet to announce that it will offer vaccine booster shots to a wide range of people considered potentially vulnerable. "The problem here is, we're just sort of going on immunological priors, rather than really great data to justify things one way or the other," said Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, professor and immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson.