University of Arizona graduate programs earned high marks in U.S. News & World Report's Best Graduate Schools rankings. The College of Medicine – Tucson scored high in several categories, including a tie for No. 16 overall on the diversity index and No. 27 in an index measuring how many graduates are practicing direct care in geographic regions that are experiencing health professional shortages.

Treatment with the low-dose painkiller ketamine eased uncontrollable body movements in patients with Parkinson’s disease, according to results from a Phase 2 study sponsored by PharmaTher. Scott Sherman, MD, PhD, director of the Movement Disorders Center and an associate professor of neurology at the College of Medicine – Tucson was the study's principal investigator. This content originated with a Health Sciences news release.

Lily Collins, an actress starring in Emily in Paris, opened up about how her character's fashion choices on the hit Netflix series landed her in the doctor's office every week and that she needed extra support in her shoes to make wearing heels for seemingly hours on end more bearable. Information about the risks associated with high heel pain from the University of Arizona Health Sciences in 2015 is cited.

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Richard Carmona, MD, MPH, distinguished laureate professor of public health at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, writes that the COVID-19 vaccine is another in a long, well-researched and well developed history of lifesaving vaccines.

Geoffrey Ahern, MD, PhD, who held the Bruce and Lorraine Cumming Endowed Chair in Alzheimer’s Research and was a professor of neurology and psychiatry at the College of Medicine – Tucson, as well as a professor of psychology and a member of the Evelyn F. McKnight Brain Institute, recently passed away.