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An Intervention with Heart

April 1, 2019

UArizona Health Sciences LIvES study uses the power of personal connections to help ovarian cancer survivors forge healthier habits

Tracy Crane, PhD (left), and Cynthia Thomson, PhD, RD

UA Medical Student Awarded $30,000 Scholarship

April 1, 2019

Second-year medical student Jacquelyn Hoffman has been awarded the Shirley D. Curson Medical Student Scholarship from the University of Arizona Hillel Foundation.

Exploring Copper's Potential as Antibiotic

April 1, 2019

While antibiotic resistance is on the rise, pharmaceutical companies are making fewer and fewer new antibiotics. UA immunobiologist Michael Johnson says this trend is in urgent need of reversal and believes copper might just be the key.

UA Health Sciences Students Win Spot in National CLARION Interprofessional Case Competition

March 28, 2019

A team of three students from the University of Arizona College of Nursing, College of Pharmacy and Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will compete April 12-13 in Minneapolis, Minn., where they will have a chance to win a grand prize of $7,500.

Dr. Meredith Hay Elected President of the American Physiological Society

March 28, 2019

Dr. Hay seeks to advance physiology’s brand and increase students’ awareness of physiology as a discipline.

UA, Banner – University Medicine Recognized as ‘Scleroderma Research and Treatment Center’ in Tucson

March 27, 2019

UA pulmonologists and rheumatologists say the designation will increase patient referrals, improve access to clinical trials and research funding for this autoimmune rheumatic disorder that affects, by some estimates, as many as 300,000 Americans. This is only the second such center in Arizona.

A collage of images showing the impact of scleroderma, including thickening and hardening of skin, joint and vascular issues, and progressive scarring in organs, particularly in the lungs. Pulmonary fibrosis affects 90 percent of scleroderma patients and is the leading cause of death.

UAHS Career Development Awards to 4 Junior Faculty Foster Clinical, Translational Research

March 26, 2019

The University of Arizona Health Sciences Career Development Awards program seeks to nurture the development of new clinical trials and biomedical and behavioral interventions to treat disease and the number of health scientists for our state and nation. This year the awards will fund sleep-, cancer- and cardiovascular disease-related research by four promising young investigators.

New Patient Tower Opens at Banner – UMC Tucson

March 26, 2019

Nine-story hospital tower opens to patients April 22; community preview April 7

UA Physician and iTether Create App for Pregnant Women, New Moms, with Opioid Addiction

March 25, 2019

Grant allows for development of new online platform.

On Every Front: Developing a Diverse Scientific Workforce To End the Alzheimer’s Epidemic

March 21, 2019

Roberta Diaz Brinton, PhD, inaugural director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, has been awarded a $1.8 million National Institutes of Health training program grant to develop a cross-disciplinary and translationally oriented workforce to discover new drugs for Alzheimer’s and other neurodegenerative diseases and shepherd them through the drug-development pipeline.