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.

Shad Marvasti, MD, associate professor of family and community medicine at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, discusses the Omicron variant and vaccine equity.

Arizona has seen daily case and hospitalization numbers decline, though deaths are still on the rise, climbing from an average of about 61 a day last week to almost 79 as of Tuesday. "We have reason to be hopeful, but we are by no means out of the woods," tweeted Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD, a professor of epidemiology at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Researchers at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health are partnering with organizations across the state to implement interventions aimed at protecting Arizonans from heat hazards with $2 million in funding from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

A postdoctoral researcher looks for ways to switch off the mechanism that allows a common yet potentially deadly virus to reproduce and thrive.

The Fourth Annual LGBTQIA+ National Symposium and Community Fair aims to address inequities in care that affect the health outcomes of the LGBTQIA+ community.

Researchers will partner with the Arizona Department of Health Services to prepare for adverse effects of climate change, especially heat-related health hazards.

Researchers at the University of Arizona are working on a promising treatment to reduce the risk of dementia in patients who have had a stroke. Kristian Doyle, associate professor of immunobiology, University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson, said they are investigating a drug that helps the brain safely store cholesterol after a stroke without provoking an inflammatory response.

Researchers will use a $1.6 million National Eye Institute grant to study age-related lens cell changes that can lead to cataracts.

SARS-CoV-2 has given scientists a plethora of vaccines to evaluate. The response after the Johnson & Johnson vaccine, for instance, elicits a weaker immune response than the mRNA vaccines initially, “and then it actually starts to get better over time,” says Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a professor and immunologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson.