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Arizona Sonoran News

Arizona Sonoran News

Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

Rosa Buelna (right), 47, helps her mother Ysidra Buelna, 75, walk down the ramp outside of their house in Douglas, Arizona, to walk around the neighborhood. Rosa Buelna is her mothers caregiver. (Photo by Joanna Daya)

More and more caregiving falls on the family

Joanna Daya April 21, 2016

Rosa Buelna supports her 75-year-old mother’s back as she walks around, pushing her walker in front of her. She does this for her mother every single day, and so much more. Ysidra Buelna had three...

Telemedicine helps sustain rural health care

Telemedicine helps sustain rural health care

Joanna Daya March 31, 2016

Access to health care in rural and underserved communities could be improved as telemedicine progresses and advances. At the same time, officials say, using video technology to reach patients...

Echoing Hope Ranch is a 10 acre land that serves as a residential service to adults with autism. Along with its four houses, it features a chicken coop, an alpaca farm, two greenhouses, a garden, two ponds and sheep running around the grass. (Photo by Joanna Daya)

Adults with autism face the harsh reality of limited support services

Joanna Daya March 3, 2016

In a quiet area in Hereford, Arizona, stands a ranch that is different from all others. The 10-acre Echoing Hope Ranch, built in 2009, has four houses, a chicken coop, a couple of alpacas, a...

The Aedes Aegypti mosquito carries the Zika virus, as well as dengue and chikungunya. This mosquito is present in the state of Arizona. (Photo credit: James Gathany/Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

Zika isn’t the only mosquito-borne disease to be worried about

Joanna Daya February 11, 2016

The Zika virus is taking one country at a time, and although the mosquito that carries the virus is present in Arizona, the mosquitoes here do not carry the virus. The mosquito-borne virus is transmitted...

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