After a bad reaction to the flu vaccine 30 years ago, a cancer patient feared that a bad reaction to the COVID vaccine would add to a host of issues he was already facing. Dr. Ricardo Correa, an endocrinologist at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, answered questions to address the concerns.

Dr. Rachna Shroff, section chief of GI Medical Oncology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, discusses the progress for cancer treatment, options and outcomes. “I think about where we’ve come from and how much incredible progress we’ve made, and it gives me so much hope. It’s a new era in cancer therapy. We have cracked the code on so many different cancers and we’re making progress in every single one,” Dr. Shroff said.

A new UArizona Health Sciences class is preparing students from across the university to creatively solve health care challenges using design thinking.

The Arizona Department of Health Services warns people not to use antibody testing to assess immunity and not to use it to get another dose of the vaccine if your antibody level is low or negative. ”I think one of the things we don't fully understand is exactly how many or how much antibody you need to confer protection and so I think that's sort of the next frontier of things we've got to figure out," said Deepta Bhattacharya, an immunobiologist at the College of Medicine – Tucson.

Health Sciences experts say resilience helped many older adults overcome the “second pandemic” of social isolation.

Sana Khan, a doctoral student at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and a vaccination site volunteer, was interviewed in March about what things look like on the ground at the university's high-capacity state vaccination site and what the one-year mark of the COVID-19 pandemic means to her.

The Master of Science in Nursing program at the UArizona College of Nursing has three pathways for students—clinical systems leadership, nursing education, and global nursing leadership.

Dr. Cecilia Rosales, associate dean of community engagement and outreach at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and leader of the MOVE-UP program, is working to distribute unused doses of a COVID-19 vaccine. “We have lots of the Janssen vaccine that is pretty close to expiring, and if we don’t get this vaccination out, we have to dispose of it, and I hate to do that,” she said.

Dr. Ricardo Correa, an endocrinologist at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, addressed rumors about people with O negative blood type having immunity to COVID-19. “There is no way that they [people with O negative blood] could be immune to COVID because blood type is not related with how the virus affects the system,” Correa said.