New Safeguards and Procedures Allow Cancer Care, Research to Continue During COVID-19 Pandemic May 7, 2020 UArizona Cancer Center, Banner – University Medicine continue state-of-the-art cancer care and cutting-edge clinical research during COVID-19 pandemic since “Cancer doesn’t sleep, so neither can we.” Read more Image
Health Sciences Colleges Create New Ways to Celebrate Graduates May 7, 2020 The five Health Sciences colleges plan special ways to mark the rite-of-passage of earning a degree, despite social distancing and stay-at-home orders. Read more Image
Spanish Outreach Campaign Encourages Healthy, Safe Community May 6, 2020 Students in the College of Medicine – Tucson designed posters and distributed them to Hispanic communities to help share public health messages in Spanish. Read more Image
UArizona Women Leaders in Medicine and Science Offer Insight into Challenges During Teleconference with Sen. Martha McSally May 6, 2020 ‘Fireside Chat’ with women-led committees at the Colleges of Medicine in Phoenix and Tucson helps inform Arizona U.S. senator on women in science and medicine. Read more Image
Medical Students Donate Critical Supplies to Rural Arizona May 6, 2020 Students from the College of Medicine – Phoenix are helping fill a need for supplies on the Navajo Nation during the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more Image
Dr. Lindsay Kohler Recognized with Health Sciences Career Development Award May 5, 2020 Read more Image
UArizona Health Sciences Researchers Identify Potential Pathway to Make Opioids Safer, More Effective May 5, 2020 Researchers from the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that inhibiting heat shock protein 90 in the spinal cord enhanced effectiveness of opioid therapy and could decrease its side effects. Read more Image
University of Arizona President Outlines Plans for Bringing Students Back May 5, 2020 Alumna Savannah Guthrie interviews University of Arizona President Robert C. Robbins about the university's plan to bring students, faculty and staff back to campus in the fall. NBC TODAY
Navajo Nation is Behind Only New York and New Jersey in Rates of COVID-19 Infection. What Happened? May 5, 2020 The Navajo Nation has more per-capita COVID-19 infections than any place outside of New York and New Jersey. In April, its rate of infection was 10 times higher than that of Arizona, which encircles most of the Nation. “If you're having to haul water from a well many miles down a dirt road, and bring it back to water the animals, and also use it for washing and cooking and things like that, it’s really hard to wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds,” said Daniel Derksen, director of the University of Arizona’s Center for Rural Health. Mother Jones