People with training in local and indigenous healing traditions or working in underserved communities can benefit from the new award.

A six-month-long study found an increasing number of people, particularly those under stay-at-home orders, are experiencing high levels of loneliness.

Greg Branigan is a first-generation MD/PhD student driven by research linking a breast cancer drug with Alzheimer’s prevention.

The University of Arizona and the Phoenix VA will open a medical research space this month at the College of Medicine in downtown Phoenix to help veterans with their medical needs. KTAR has aired this story 6 times between Dec. 9 & 10.

Medical experts are urging Pima County residents to stay home after hospitals hit capacity Wednesday night. "If we don't intervene, quickly, then we will, in fact, overwhelm our hospital system. Right now that's the critical weakness is we may not have room, in the end, for everybody come Christmas Day," said Joe Gerald, an associate professor in the University of Arizona's Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

As hospitals face a crisis because of the surging number of COVID-19 patients, most Arizonans have fewer restrictions on their day-to-day lives than they did during the first wave of the illness. "We're at a level of spread that is at or higher, arguably, depending on what variables you look at, as we were in our initial peak here in Arizona. At that time we had much more shutdown than we do now," said Dr. Farshad Fani Marvasti, a public health expert, physician and associate professor at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix.

University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers are conducting a multiyear research study – Arizona CoVHORT – to answer questions about risk factors for severe COVID-19 infection and how the virus impacts long-term health outcomes.

A new study has found that a novel T cell genetically engineered by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers is able to target and attack pathogenic T cells that cause Type 1 diabetes, which could lead to new immunotherapy treatments.

Robert Norwood and Laurence Hurley have been elected as fellows of the academy, the organization's most prestigious designation.

Inspired by her work at an orphanage, Dr. Katalin Gothard aims to understand how the brain interprets the social, emotional and physical aspects of touch.