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Student Newswire of The University of Arizona School of Journalism

Arizona Sonoran News

(Courtesy of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016 School Health Profile

Arizona sex education falls short

Anna Frazier April 25, 2018

Arizona ranks third worst in the nation when it comes to comprehensive sex education curriculum, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2016 School Health Profile. The state...

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...

Domestic Violence Rates in Arizona Decreasing

Domestic Violence Rates in Arizona Decreasing

Reham Alawadhi October 9, 2014

Jami Day was a prideful 19-year-old girl moving in with her new fiancé. Two weeks into the new living arrangement, they got into an argument. It was the first time that Day had ever seen him that angry,...

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