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Ricardo Correa, MD, director of the Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism Fellowship Program in the College of Medicine – Phoenix, joined a discussion about the role of screeners, navigators, community health workers and promotoras in infection control.

Bivalent vaccines contain the mRNA components of the spike genes of the SARS-CoV-2 virus ancestral strain and the BA.4/5 subvariants.

Health experts are expecting another COVID-19 surge this fall and winter due to waning immunity from vaccines and more people spending time indoors. Natasha Bhuyan, MD, clinical assistant professor in the College of Medicine – Phoenix, is quoted

From providing accurate COVID-19 information to advocating for testing and vaccination with cultural sensitivity, promotoras, or Spanish-speaking community health workers, were key to serving marginalized Hispanic populations. Jill Guernsey de Zapien Border, director of the Transborder and Binational Public Health program in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, is quoted.

Building an AI tool to improve medical interviews is the continuing focus of a Vertically Integrated Project offered by the UArizona Health Sciences Design program. Related content.

The Rural Health Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship in the College of Medicine – Phoenix is mentioned as one of two programs attracting outside medical students to the Payson community.

The Yuma Center for Excellence for Desert Agriculture set up a lab to test wastewater for early warnings of COVID-19's spread throughout Yuma. This collaboration between public health and wastewater testing requiring the expertise of a range of professionals across multiple industries is considered a One Health approach. Frank A. von Hippel, PhD, professor in the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and lead of the UArizona Health Sciences “One Health” research initiative, is quoted. The Health Sciences Office of Communications assisted with this story.

Two University of Arizona Health Sciences scientists are one step closer to developing a test to assess a baby’s risk for asthma, which would allow parents to take steps to thwart the disease’s development and could guide doctors to prescribe preventive treatments. This content originated with a Health Sciences news release.

Gary Nabhan, PhD, research social scientist in the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences, is designing a study with collaborators at the Andrew Weil Center for Integrative Medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson, including research director Esther Sternberg, MD, professor of medicine in the College of Medicine – Tucson, to quantify the health effects before, during and after experiences in the desert.

In an unexpected reversal, an FDA advisory committee voted 7-2 on Wednesday to support approval of AMX0035, an investigational drug being evaluated for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.