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A father brings his infant child to El Rio Community Health Center for a checkup.

Most popular names for Arizona babies

Dec 27, 2022 Most common names for newborns remain nearly the same as they have for close to a decade.
Tucson City Hall

Tucson City Council: dispensaries, fare-free transit, childcare and redistricting

Dec 23, 2022 Mayor and council rounded out the year in their final city council meeting of 2022.
A health care worker administers a COVID-19 vaccine on a man at St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church in Tucson. March 2021.

Pima County to host vaccine clinics in Green Valley, starting Wednesday

Dec 20, 2022 Clinics will offer influenza and COVID shots, along with free at-home COVID tests.
John Farley, director of fire test operations at the Naval Research Laboratory, tests the effectiveness of aqueous film-forming foam by spraying it on a gasoline fire. The test took place at the laboratory in Chesapeake Beach, Md. Oct. 25, 2019.

ADEQ to test all small water systems for PFAS

Dec 19, 2022 An EPA grant will allow the state to test water from 1,200 providers.
A male Elegant Trogon, as featured in Richard Cachor Taylor's 2022 book "Birds of Arizona".

The field guide "Birds of Arizona" was a labor of love for author Richard Cachor Taylor.

Dec 15, 2022 Also on Arizona Spotlight: How the Pima County Library's Synapse Team is helping mental health community-wide; visit the El Jefe Cat Lounge; and remembering broadcasting legend Larry Schnebly.

Respiratory illnesses continue rise in Pima County

Dec 15, 2022 Officials are asking residents to update their vaccinations, wear masks and social distance.
A sign warning drivers of high pedestrian traffic on West St. Mary's Road in Tucson on a late October afternoon.

Traffic deaths rising in Tucson, pedestrians at highest risk

Dec 14, 2022 The number of pedestrian fatalities have almost doubled from 2021.
This transmission electron microscope image shows SARS-CoV-2—also known as 2019-nCoV, the virus that causes COVID-19—isolated from a patient in the U.S.

Maricopa County sees large spike in flu, COVID-19, and RSV

Dec 9, 2022 Officials are urging that anyone 6 months or older get vaccinated for the flu and for COVID-19, especially with more gatherings during the holiday season.

Court of appeals listens to arguments over abortion access in Arizona

Dec 2, 2022 The three-judge panel did not indicate when their decision would be released.
This electron microscopic image depicted monkeypox virus particles, obtained from a clinical sample associated with the 2003 prairie dog outbreak. It was a thin section image from of a human skin sample.

Pima County expanding monkeypox vaccine availability

Nov 27, 2022 The county has permission from the state to make the vaccine easier to get.
Seal of the state of Arizona.

Arizona saw an increase in child deaths during 2021

Nov 26, 2022 Drownings, child neglect and firearms contributed to an increase in child deaths in Arizona during 2021.
File photo of a hospital hallway.

Health insurance open enrollment sees lower premiums

Nov 23, 2022 Officials are pointing towards the Inflation Reduction Act for more affordable plans.
COVID19

COVID numbers rising in Arizona again

Nov 22, 2022 Most of the state is considered having a medium transmission rate.
Since the year 2000, the Pima County Medical Examiner has received nearly 4,000 sets of human remains from people who died crossing the U.S.-Mexico border into Arizona. Here, a cross marking the place where a man in his 30s died in 2009 lays a few hundred yards from one of the water stations the nonprofit Humane Borders sets out for migrants crossing the desert.

Missing Migrant Program Summit brings awareness to risk of migrant deaths

Nov 21, 2022 Officials from local, national and non-governmental agencies came together to exchange ideas.

Children see unusual rise in respiratory virus

Nov 15, 2022 Respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, is seeing higher rates of cases in Arizona.
Wayne Wilson, a traditional Navajo healer at the Native American Baha’i Institute in Houck, Arizona, uses arrowheads, eagle feathers, herbs, song and ceremony to restore the mental and physical well-being of himself and others. Photo taken Sept. 1, 2022.

Healing through culture

Nov 13, 2022 Increasing access to Native American practices to treat mental health

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