The University of Arizona Health Sciences announced five new recipients of Innovations in Healthy Aging seed grant funding supporting research that targets diseases of aging, addresses health challenges related to optimal aging, and expands communities and activities for older adults.

William D.S. Killgore, PhD, director of the Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Lab in the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Department of Psychiatry, has explored light as a treatment for military veterans who have had traumatic brain injuries or have post-traumatic stress disorder.

More than 17 million Canadians have had some version of Omicron, in a “tsunami” of infections over the past five months, according to a new report. Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, professor of immunobiology in the College of Medicine – Tucson, is quoted.

The Center for Advanced Molecular and Immunological Therapies will support research to catalyze the next generation of precision health care treatments.

The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix will offer the state’s only Master of Science in Clinical Research

In May, a COVID-19 lockdown in Shanghai shut down a plant that manufactures a type of dye injected into the body to make organs and blood vessels more visible on CT scans.

In Arizona, most clinics that offered abortion services have shut down in the wake of the Supreme Court's ruling.

The government has greenlit new vaccines to defend against the latest Omicron variants. But the shots won’t arrive until the fall and cases are rising now.