Dr. Insel supports faculty and students who are conducting biological or behavioral studies to improve health outcomes for individuals and populations and students in the Doctor of Nursing Practice and RN-MS programs.

An article examines how older medical students arrive with different motivations, advantages and challenges than their younger classmates. "It's a lot of ground to make up," says Athena R. Ganchorre, director of student development at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson. "They might never have taken a standardized test like the MCAT exam – it requires a way of thinking and testing that's hard to learn in a short time."

The University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson study finds that women who experience more stressful life events in the year before childbirth have greater odds of using marijuana before and during pregnancy.

The expanded and renovated Skaggs Center will become a new home for the Arizona Center for Drug Discovery, new chemistry and biology laboratories, and the History of Pharmacy Museum expansion.

Seven Health Sciences employees and family members were honored for their artwork on Feb. 15, 2020, in Tucson.

As a heart failure specialist, researcher and assistant professor at the UArizona College of Medicine Tucson, Dr. Khadijah Breathett knows the impact of the heart.

To better serve patients, health professionals must break out of their silos and work in interprofessional teams. University of Arizona Health Sciences interprofessional events prepare students for this future through shared learning experiences.

Asthma rates are high on the Navajo reservation. Children are more likely to have asthma attacks and more likely to die from the condition than the general population. "We're taking proven interventions that we've done in non-native communities and adapting them for these native communities,” said Lynn Gerald, a professor of health promotion sciences in theMel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.

Banner – University Medical Center Tucson has earned Geriatric Emergency Department Accreditation.