You might not think about it as much as you do eating healthy, exercising, and getting enough sleep, but maintaining good circulation is one of the most important building blocks to keeping your health on the rails. “When you exercise, your muscles need greater blood flow, which supplies oxygen and other nutrients,” says Nachiket Patel, MD, a board-certified interventional cardiologist and clinical assistant professor of medicine at the College of Medicine – Phoenix.

UArizona employees are playing an instrumental role in distributing the COVID-19 vaccine to Arizonans.

The unused and expired medications inside your home can be dangerous and lead to accidental exposure and unintentional poisoning.

Mexican-American children north of the U.S.-Mexico border generally live in cleaner, healthier homes than those to the south. And yet, they have much higher rates of asthma. Scientists at the University of Arizona Health Sciences think exposure to some kinds of bacteria may be a good thing when it comes to asthma. They’re recruiting mothers and babies in Tucson and Nogales to test that idea, called “the hygiene hypothesis.” Interview with Dr. Fernando Martinez, director of the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center.

The colorectal oncology team at the University of Arizona Cancer Center and Banner-University Medicine has earned accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer.

A dedicated campaign to include an underrepresented group in the AZ HEROES study is expected to produce more meaningful results.

Unique curriculum developed at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine at the University of Arizona Health Sciences is now being taught to medical residents nationally and internationally.

Kacey Ernst, a professor of epidemiology at the College of Public Health, acknowledges that breakthrough transmission risks outdoors are much lower than indoors, but “not all outdoor spaces are the same.” Ernst added, "Some are very sparsely populated — think hiking trails in remote areas. Others are much more crowded — outdoor festivals, concerts."

Health researchers are calling for more training and workflow improvement processes to ensure improved equity in the nation's system that manages organ transplants. "These are areas that need more study," said Dr. Khadijah Breathett, assistant professor with the College of Medicine – Tucson. "We need to initiate evidence-based bias reduction and anti-racism programs that lead to consistent change in the way that we do things. We have to figure out how to avoid subjective assessments, so we can start to make this process more equitable."