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A group of students smile together while gathering around a table decorated in a red cloth with red and blue balloons in the background.

First Doctor of Physical Therapy Program students begin studies

The Class of 2028 met for the first time and kicked off its three-year journey in the long-awaited program.

Repurposed multiple sclerosis drug could help bones heal faster

Repurposed multiple sclerosis drug could help bones heal faster

A doctor applies sensors to the arm of a person sitting on a bed in a sleep lab while another person monitors the sensor output on a small digital device on the wall.

Putting sleep at the center of health care

An image if two liquid chemotherapy drugs in small bottles next to a needle laying on top of a plastic collection bag

Repackaged cancer drug boosts delivery to tumors, improves combination therapies

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction researchers say reclassifying cannabis as a Schedule III substance would loosen the restraints on research into possible benefits, as well as any potential negative side effects, of medical marijuana.

Should cannabis still be a Schedule I drug?

A woman with long blonde hair and a white suite coat stands with a man in a suite on either side of a banner that reads AANA Fellows.

College of Nursing’s Hoch and Reed honored as AANA fellows

Student-faculty team of inventors devises tools to address orthopedic challenges

A group of dancers, two in wheelchairs, perform an interpritive dance.

Feast for Your Brain engages both body and mind

John Galgiani, MD

Paving a path for Valley fever research, treatment, prevention

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Arizona Telemedicine and Telehealth earn USDLA Gold Award

Researchers surveyed Arizona CoVHORT study participants who opted not to receive COVID-19 boosters in hopes that the results would help design interventions to help protect more people from the latest variants.

Study uncovers reasons Americans did not get booster vaccines

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Galgiani receives AZBio Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement

Van Dexter Difuntorum Calo is one of 11 medical students at the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix to receive a Primary Care Physician Scholarship.

Future primary care doctors receive scholarships for medical school

Irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, affects an estimated 10-15% of the U.S population. Research has shown COVID-19 can cause acute gastrointestinal issues, which researchers think might increase the risk of developing IBS.

New study will examine irritable bowel syndrome as long COVID symptom

Edgar A. Villavicencio does a FibroScan test on a Nosotros Comprometidos a Su Salud (Committed to Your Health) study participant.

Unsung heroes make Health Sciences labs work

A recent upswing in COVID-19 cases in the U.S. increased conversations about the newest COVID-19 vaccine, which targets the XBB variant.

Insights: Vaccines, variants and COVID-19 trends