Five students, each from a different college at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, were selected to receive scholarships funded by a gift from QuidelOrtho.

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services issued a pass-through payment reimbursement code for the drug flotufolastat F 18, marketed as Posluma. Tthe code may make it easier for doctors to prescribe the drug for prostate cancer imaging for Medicare patients.

The number of Arizonans with health insurance rose in 2022, a post-pandemic bump that experts say has likely turned sharply south in the year since, as COVID-19 benefits have been phased out.

As Phoenix experienced record-breaking heat this summer that caused severe burns, deaths and other heat-related issues, homeless people face barriers to finding basic health care treatment.

Experts said Arizona could be short 2,000 primary care physicians by 2030 if the trend isn't reversed. “[We are] about 667 full-time equivalent primary care physicians short of where we should be, and that number will grow," said Dan Derksen, associate vice president at the University of Arizona Health Sciences.

Biomedical implants, such as breast implants and pacemakers, improve patient health and quality of life but may be rejected as foreign bodies. Suppressing production of an immune protein could reduce this risk.

College of Medicine – Tucson researchers identified a protein that appears to help drive the body to reject biomedical implants. The findings were published in Nature Biomedical Engineering.