Cada año, aproximadamente 90.000 habitantes de Arizona se infectan con una enfermedad que podría matarlos. Sin embargo, eso podría cambiar pronto. Se está desarrollando una droga nueva para curar potencialmente la Fiebre del Valle, ya que ésta mata a una de cada 10 personas infectadas. La región del sudoeste de Arizona, California, Nuevo México,…
Every year, roughly 90,000 Arizonans are infected with a disease that could kill them. But that could change soon. A new drug is being developed to potentially cure Valley Fever since it kills one out of 10 people infected. The Southwest region – Arizona, California, New Mexico, Texas – is home to the Valley Fever…
Robert Knight, a professional hairdresser and a peer counselor at the Southern Arizona AIDS Foundation (SAAF), has been living with AIDS for almost 18 years. His biggest goal right now is to educate the youth so they can be more aware of a disease that is far from being eliminated. And he has a…
A professor at the University of Arizona is giving sight back to those who once saw. Since 2002, Dr. Wolfgang Fink, an associate professor in the UA Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering, and colleagues have been working on a new way to give sight to those whose vision has been…
