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UArizona Medical Student Effort to Distribute COVID-19 Awareness Posters in Spanish Gains Supporters Near and Far
Four University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson students, three of whom graduate this week, distribute posters in collaborative community effort.
Drs. Andrew Weil and Victoria Maizes Host New Integrative Medicine Podcast, ‘Body of Wonder’
The ‘Body of Wonder’ podcast from the University of Arizona Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine is recorded in Tucson and acquaints listeners with new ways to think about health and medicine.
UArizona Medical Student Selected for National Scholarship Supporting Physician Workforce Diversity
Aaron Bia, a member of the Navajo Nation set to graduate in May 2021, will receive one of 10 inaugural ElevateMeD Scholarships.
UArizona Health Sciences Colleges Create New Ways to Celebrate Graduates
The five Health Sciences colleges at the University of Arizona plan special ways to mark the rite-of-passage of earning a degree, despite COVID-19 social distancing and stay-at-home orders.
Rattlesnake Bites on the Rise – Watch Where You Step, Says UArizona Poison Center
There have been 36 rattlesnake bites reported to the Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center this year, with each month in 2020 having more than the previous month so far.
New Safeguards and Procedures Allow Cancer Care, Research to Continue During COVID-19 Pandemic
UArizona Cancer Center, Banner – University Medicine continue state-of-the-art cancer care and cutting-edge clinical research during COVID-19 pandemic since “Cancer doesn’t sleep, so neither can we.”
UArizona Mobile Health Unit Outreach to Spanish-Speakers Offers Crucial Link in COVID-19 Battle
An internationally recognized program at the University of Arizona is conducting health screenings and referrals by phone and online to help vulnerable communities hit hard by the pandemic.
UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson to Celebrate ‘Virtual’ 2020 Convocation
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.
UArizona Health Sciences Researchers Identify Potential Pathway to Make Opioids Safer, More Effective
Researchers from the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson found that inhibiting heat shock protein 90 in the spinal cord enhanced effectiveness of opioid therapy and could decrease its side effects.
Two UArizona Physicians among Authors on ASAIO Paper for Cardiopulmonary Life Support of Advanced COVID-19 Patients
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.
UArizona Researchers Repurpose Suramin to Fight Oral Mucositis and Diabetic Foot Ulcers
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.
Dr. Roberta Diaz Brinton Featured at Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation Virtual Event, May 6
The director of the UArizona Center for Innovation in Brain Science will be joined by NBC’s Andrea Mitchell, host of this year’s fundraiser, and the ADDF director to discuss the latest research.
UArizona Researchers Pivot to Tackle COVID-19, Splitting More Than $500,000 in Funding
Thirteen research teams will address various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic with financial support from rapid-turnaround seed grants supplied through funding from the state and University of Arizona BIO5 Institute.
UArizona President to Have Blood Drawn for COVID-19 Antibody Testing
After his blood draw, Dr. Robert C. Robbins will announce plans for the university’s fall semester. Appointments for this first round of testing for 4,500 people in Pima County are filled. No walkups.
Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center ALERT: Avoid Inappropriate ‘Anti-COVID-19’ Treatments
Inappropriate medications and household products used to prevent or treat COVID-19 can cause significant harm and no benefit, University of Arizona-based center warns.
UArizona Launches Two-Way Texting System to Gather and Provide Critical COVID-19 Health Data
A research team at the University of Arizona Health Sciences and Data Science Institute has launched a crowd-source texting system to gather vital public health data to help fight COVID-19 in Arizona.
Thirty New Phoenix Physicians Graduate Early to Battle COVID-19
Young doctors-in-training at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix choose to forgo traditional commencement ceremony to help the health care community with the pandemic.
UArizona Health Sciences ‘Wellness Wednesdays’ Webinars Offer Community Connection during Social Distancing
The free, interactive 30-minute lunchtime webinars feature University of Arizona Health Sciences-affiliated faculty and staff members as presenters and provide information and tools to help support individuals as they navigate the new reality of Arizona’s stay-at-home orders in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.