Arizona Science Desk
People suffering from strokes won’t have to wait as long to receive critical care in the Valley. On Wednesday, Phoenix became one of the few cities in the country with an ambulance fully equipped to treat patients for stroke at the curb.
June 14, 2017
As we enter the height of mosquito season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is reporting cases of locally transmitted Zika virus are down. But experts warn we are not out of the woods.
June 14, 2017
The union for the United States Border Patrol said several federal agents using X-ray scanners at checkpoints have now developed thyroid cancer.
June 14, 2017
Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border for drug smuggling activity is one of the charges of the U.S. Border Patrol. This task has been made that much more difficult in the technological age.
June 14, 2017
The city of Tempe recently announced levels of a harmful contaminant in its water violated an EPA standard.
June 13, 2017
When her daughter was born in January, the first thing Maria Rios checked was the baby's head.
June 13, 2017
Despite criticizing Democrats for a lack of transparency when passing Obamacare in 2009, Republicans have held no public hearings as they work through their own healthcare bill.
June 13, 2017
Citing state laws on epidemics, the state's top health official wants Gov. Doug Ducey to give her more powers to deal with opioid overdoses, including the ability to identify and track individual patients.
June 13, 2017
Congress continues to hash out health care and questions remain about how Arizona will fare. The state has struggled with a high number of uninsured children in recent years, but that’s beginning to change. Unless Congress acts by the end of the year, some say the state could backslide again.
June 13, 2017
When there’s not enough of a product to meet our demand for it in the produce aisle, prices go up. That’s what’s happening right now with lettuce in Arizona. Yuma and Maricopa County grow approximately 90 percent of the winter lettuce crop for the U.S., but a voracious disease is threatening the crop — and driving up prices.
June 12, 2017
Contemplating dinner can give you indigestion, but science may change how we think about dairy and meat production. Scientists are creating meat without killing animals.
June 12, 2017
A U.S. Marine stationed in Yuma has been selected by NASA to join the 2017 Astronaut Candidate Class.
June 12, 2017
At a sales show in Mexico City, one successful Arizona company helped others find a way to enter the Latin American market.
June 12, 2017
Animal testing on cosmetics produced in the United States may be banned if lawmakers from Arizona and four other states have their way.
June 12, 2017
Members of the medical and hacker communities are raising concerns about cybersecurity vulnerabilities affecting medical records, infrastructure and devices. Ransomware like the WannaCry virus – which shut down at least 16 hospitals in Great Britain, and which experts say could spread to devices – has taken those concerns from serious to critical.
June 12, 2017
Phoenix taxpayers could cover millions in new infrastructure costs to help Arizona State University develop its Health Solutions Innovation Center. It’s part of an agreement between the city, ASU and Mayo Clinic to create the Arizona Biomedical Corridor. The area is along Loop 101 from 56th to 64th streets. That’s where Mayo Clinic has a 7-story hospital and where ASU wants to build its $75 million center.
June 10, 2017
The University of Arizona has received a $100,000 grant to begin research tracking opioid abuse.
June 8, 2017
Actor Leonardo DiCaprio, Mexico’s president and the country’s wealthiest man are teaming up to save a small porpoise that is on the brink of extinction.
June 8, 2017
Our generation does not hold a patent on unease about the quickening pace of technical innovation. But neither did our forebears face quite so many technologies with so much capacity for wide-scale disruption. Is our progress outpacing our precautions? And, if so, what can we do about it?
June 8, 2017
Yuma and Maricopa County grow approximately 90 percent of the winter lettuce crop for the U.S., but production has been threatened by a wilting disease. And prices have spiked. One researcher says the path to a cure involves a new kind of agriculture, using technology to choose where to plant.
June 7, 2017
