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Can AI and a smartphone improve mental health treatment?

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Micronutrient deficiency linked to chronic pain in new study

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Mingyu Liang works to transform physiology at U of A

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Toxic metals linked to impaired growth in infants in Guatemala

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

As researchers seeks ways to maintain health in older adults, they found that infections may give an unexpected boost to the immune system by benefiting naïve T cells.

Researchers Find Surprising Benefit to the Immune System Following Infection

(From right) Cesar Egurrola, lead clinical coordinator and case manager; Larry York, PharmD, BCIDP, BCPS, AAHIVP, clinical pharmacist, infectious diseases and HIV/AIDS; and Matthew Adams, DO, speak with a visitor at the Petersen Clinic.

HIV/AIDS Care Team, Training Program Pivot During Pandemic

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AZ INMED Program Honored for Improving Native Health Care

Meet a Navajo Student Advancing Indigenous Rights Around Research Data

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Study Seeks to Improve Medication Adherence, Reduce Hypertension Disparities

Kathleen E. Rodgers, PhD, professor of pharmacology and associate director of Translational Neuroscience at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center for Innovations in Brain Science (CIBS), holds more than 50 U.S. patents, has six drugs in discovery and development, has founded four companies, and has authored nearly 200 scientific papers.

From Field Research as a Teenager to Brain Researcher at CIBS

Members of the Alliance for Vaccine Literacy group started by Purnima Madhivanan, PhD, MBBS, MPH, (center arms crossed) flex their muscles in supporting the UArizona Health Sciences community in effectively talking with vaccine hesitant friends and family. (From left) Students Wesley Chiu, Himanashi Kapoor, Dametreea Carr McCuin, Dr. Madhivanan, Maiya Block, MPH, and Riley Sena.

Engaging Vaccine-Hesitant Loved Ones with Empathy

Reseachers at the College of Nursing will use a grant from the National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health to study phone-delivered interventions to help people stop smoking.

Researchers Receive $3.3M to Study Integrative Health Program to Help People Stop Smoking

Tommy K. Begay, PhD, MPH, says environments of toxic stress impact neurophysiology of children, and can lead to unhealthy outcomes as they become adults.

Integrating Indigenous Wisdom and Western Medicine

The Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) Initiative was established to find answers to critical PASC-related issues including why some people recover while others do not, PASC risk factors, and strategies for preventing and treating PASC.

UArizona Health Sciences Researchers to Study Long COVID as Part of National Collaborative

UArizona Researchers Develop Ultra-Thin 'Computer on the Bone'

College of Nursing student Valerie Pedersen gives a woman a COVID-19 vaccine at a MOVE UP clinic at the Consulate of Mexico in Douglas hosted by the UArizona Health Sciences in partnership with the Cochise County Health Department.

MOVE UP Outreach Program Administers 36,000 COVID-19 Vaccines in Arizona’s Rural and Underserved Communities