News

This month, military surgeon Dr. James Wiseman went on a different kind of deployment: helping administer the COVID vaccine to the Tucson community as a volunteer with disaster relief organization Team Rubicon. Learn more about Dr. Wiseman's experience and how you can help COVID-19 vaccination efforts, too.

Faculty close to the Primary Care Physician Scholarship Program find the effort inspiring as it helps fill clinical gaps in underserved areas of Arizona.

A study found that tranexamic acid, commonly used in cardiac surgery to help stop bleeding, improved the odds of survival for some trauma patients.

Antibody tests, groundbreaking research and community outreach are a few of the ways the University of Arizona Health Sciences met the test of a pandemic.

Among recent notices: Lifetime achievement award for Dr. Ron Weinstein; and Dr. Sam Keim elected to American Board of Emergency Medicine.

At 7,541 administered from Nov. 9-13, the university?s COVID-19 testing, which continues through Nov. 25, is succeeding in goal to test large numbers of students before they head home for holidays.

The university will expand in-person instruction with half the semester left to go, bringing about 1,500 more students to campus a week.

The university is currently allowing courses of up to 50 students to meet on campus. After Thanksgiving, all courses will transition to being fully online.

The contribution will allow UArizona researchers to continue developing better, more efficient and effective tests for people across the state.

The university also will conduct a testing blitz prior to the Thanksgiving holiday in an effort to reduce travel-related spread of COVID-19.