The College of Medicine – Tucson will lead a study to determine the impact of carotid disease on cognitive impairment and Alzheimer’s disease.

Researchers hope that finding a connection between carotid disease and Alzheimer’s could provide a new pathway for preventing dementia.

What happens when oncology practitioners trade their white coat for a hospital gown? How does the emotional toll of their personal cancer journey change the way they interact with their patients? Taylor Riall, MD, PhD, a general surgeon and surgical oncologist at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, shares her experience after a cancer diagnosis.

Medical research hasn’t always been inclusive, but the All of Us Research Program is changing that.

Researchers across the university are collaborating to enhance the lives of older adults through integration, partnerships, research and education.

The Arizona Geriatrics Society honored Janko Nikolich-Žugich, MD, PhD, as the 2021 Gerontologist of the Year at its Annual Fall Symposium.

HealthTech Connect is designed to generate new partnerships to advance health technology in Arizona.

Many parents of kids in the 5-11 age group are signaling reluctance to get their youngsters inoculated against the virus, according to national polling from the Kaiser Family Foundation. Natasha Bhuyan, MD, a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Family, Community and Preventative Medicine at the College of Medicine – Phoenix, tweeted Sunday that hundreds of children have died from the virus, making it vitally important for youths to get the shot. “Let’s change the narrative that the COVID vaccine in children is to protect adults – the vaccine is intended to protect *children themselves* from a preventable illness," Dr. Bhuyan tweeted.

Changing the way we think about food, not just as fuel but to fight illness and disease, is the focus of a growing culinary medicine program at the University of Arizona, where doctors are being trained to prescribe the right meals as medicine. "Food really is medicine and good food can really heal us, treat, prevent and reverse the diseases of our time," says Farshad Fani Marvasti, MD, MPH, associate professor and director of Public Health, Prevention and Health Promotion Curriculum at the College of Medicine – Phoenix.