Two Northern Arizona University students were struck with Pontiac Fever after staying at the Aria in Las Vegas, which has been struggling with lingering bacteria problems.Joseph Dougherty and Erika Keller arrived at the hotel on July 5, stayed two nights before driving back to Flagstaff, then fell seriously ill two…
According to a recently released study from Arizona State University’s Center for Violence Prevention and Community Safety, if you’ve been booked into a Maricopa Count jail, you’re much more likely to catch a sexually transmitted disease than members of the general public.According to the study, if you’ve been booked into…
Starting July 1, if you use tobacco and live in Arizona, don’t even think about applying for a job at insurance giant Humana — it doesn’t want you.The company announced yesterday that it will begin testing potential employees at its five Arizona work locations for nicotine (yes…nicotine)…
Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne today agreed to a hefty $40.8 million settlement agreement with GlaxoSmithKline LLC and PB Pharmco — companies accused of distributing defective drugs.After divvying up the settlement between 37 states and the District of Columbia that also filed complaints, Arizona’s raking getting $1.4 million.From 2001 to 2004, the…
The national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued “The Good, The Bad and The Ugly” for Men’s Health Week (going on now), and in Arizona, bad and ugly outweigh good. The CDC says in its report that 73 percent of Arizona men are obese or overweight. And they rank worse than the…
If you’re like us, you probably thought plague was the last thing you’d have to worry about while living in a relatively clean, industrialized country — and it still is, despite the discovery of the rare disease in fleas in a remote section of Coconino County.Coconino County health officials announced…
Good news, fatsos: you may now be able to blame your flab on your friends.According to a recent study by researchers at Arizona State University, obesity is socially contagious…
Arizona is near the bottom when it comes to per-capita income, education spending, and its chances of an economic recovery. But being last isn’t always a bad thing: A new report shows that Arizona has the lowest rates of cancer in the country. According to a news release put out today…
