TUCSON, Ariz. — Smoking is the leading cause of preventable disease, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and quitting is not easy. New research from the University of Arizona Health Sciences shows getting a good night’s sleep could be another tool to help people successfully quit smoking.
TUCSON, Ariz. — Increasing coronavirus cases nationwide are causing concern for University of Arizona leaders in the weeks leading up to the holidays.
TUCSON, Ariz. — At the University of Arizona, two types of tests are typically offered to students and employees to detect the presence of COVID-19. Both the quick-turnaround antigen tests and the polymerase chain reaction test rely on a nasal swab to collect a sample. But for those who dread the stick up the nose, one UArizona researcher is hoping to add another tool to the university’s testing arsenal – one that relies instead on a simple saltwater rinse and gargle.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The University of Arizona will remain in phase two of its reentry plan next week but will begin allowing larger in-person classes to meet on campus.
TUCSON, Ariz. — The Tohono O’odham Nation has committed $1 million to the University of Arizona to help researchers fight COVID-19.
TUCSON, Ariz. – Two new clinical practitioners have joined the Banner – University Medicine and University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson urology team, Sunchin Kim, MD, and Cara Whittingham, NP.
TUCSON, Ariz. – A University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher has been awarded an eight-year, $7.3 million federal grant to advance her two decades of research to determine how a family of proteins can be harnessed to prevent or treat arsenic-induced lung cancer and Type 2 diabetes.
The funding comes from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
TUCSON, Ariz. – The University of Arizona Health Sciences is developing a lung ultrasound education program for rural emergency medicine providers to better diagnose COVID-19.
