"A thermometer that is cost-effective, reliable and easily cleaned between uses makes a thermometer good for families," said Dr. Farshad Fani Marvasti, director of the public health curriculum for the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.

Arizona's COVID-19 reproduction number – a measure of whether a disease is spreading or contracting, also called R0 – is the lowest in the nation, by one count, just eight weeks after the state was in headlines as a coronavirus hot spot. But University of Arizona epidemiologist Purnima Madhivanan from the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, urged caution at the R0 news.

The University of Arizona College of Nursing is among the beneficiaries of a $1.5 million gift from UA alumni Andrew and Kirsten Braccia. The vast majority of the gift, $1 million, will support next-generation education for nursing students, enhancing simulation capabilities, providing students online access to virtual patient experiences, and supporting and augmenting technology needed for distance learning due to COVID-19.

Arizona has seen a 20% increase in deaths in the first seven months of this year – and not all of them have been directly linked to the coronavirus. Other states have seen a similar increase in deaths since the pandemic began, said Zhao Chen, a chronic disease epidemiologist and professor at the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health. Chen said Arizona's growing population could explain part of the increase in overall deaths, though she doubts growth is the only factor.

Drs. Leslie Farland and Melanie Bell at the UArizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health to lead a federally funded research study to investigate a link among endometriosis, infertility and stroke in women.

Leslie V. Farland, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has been awarded federal funding to study the association among endometriosis infertility and risk of stroke.

Deadly overdoses from all drugs have been on an upward trajectory in Pima County since March, the same month when the pandemic entered the forefront. The timing likely isn’t a coincidence, as Arizona 360 heard from Todd Vanderahan, head of the University of Arizona Department of Pharmacology at the College of Medicine - Tucson and serves as director for the UA’s new Comprehensive Pain and Addiction Center.

As COVID-19 vaccine work continues throughout the country, a University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher explains how a vaccine is created.

Classes and work are resuming, but many things have changed to make campus life as safe as possible.