“Arizona has been hit particularly hard for adults,” said Joe Gerald, an associate professor at the University of Arizona’s College of Public Health who creates COVID-19 forecast models. “It’s not surprising that children have also been hit hard.” That higher infection rate, combined with the state’s relatively young population, means more young people are getting the virus, Gerald said. About a quarter of Arizonans are 19 or younger – about 59% of them Hispanic.

Researchers at the University of Arizona are preparing to make history. Dr. Meredith Hay is leading a team at the UA College of Medicine preparing the first potential drug to treat vascular dementia the second most common form of dementia after Alzheimer's.

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the All of Us Research Program is a historic effort to collect and study data from at least 1 million people in the United States.

Council on Education for Public Health awards full reaccreditation to the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, an exemplary achievement as it celebrates 20th anniversary as part of university.

The scholarship program is now accepting out-of-state students, keeping Health Sciences-trained physicians in Arizona to care for underserved patients.

With a number of COVID-19 patients hospitalized with respiratory problems and dying from heart failure, it became obvious early on that SARS-CoV-2, the new coronavirus behind the pandemic, also can damage the heart. "We don't do MRIs on everyone who has the flu, so we don't know how many have inflammation or what their long-term outcomes are," said Dr. Martha Gulati, the division chief of cardiology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Rajesh Khanna, a professor of anesthesiology and pharmacology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, writes that his research group uncovered a link between a particular cellular protein and pain – an interaction that is disrupted by the coronavirus.

The Addiction Medicine Fellowship program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson will use a $1.4 million federal grant to increase its training capacity, help combat Arizona’s opioid epidemic and increase services to rural and underserved communities across the state.