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.

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.

On May 14, a total of 117 medical students from the University of Arizona in Tucson officially will become physicians and earn their Doctor of Medicine degrees.

The paper, published in two medical journals last week, lays out best practice guidelines for patients in intensive care units requiring advanced life-saving therapies due to the novel coronavirus.

Medical students at the College of Medicine – Phoenix learn how to think through tough ethical issues in a series of lectures, case studies and exercises.

This University of Arizona-led breakthrough has the potential to benefit hundreds of thousands of patients whose current healing options are either partially effective or painful and invasive.

Phase 1 of the Antibody test has begun for frontline workers and some members of the general public inside a temporary clinic set up at Tucson’s Cole and Jeannie Davis Sports Center.

A test developed by UArizona Health Sciences will screen 250,000 health care workers and first responders for immunity to the novel coronavirus.