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Photo of several people chatting together in a circular room filled with examining tables in the new lab space of the University of Arizona School of Health Professions Physical Therapy and Physician Assistant studios.

Doctor of Physical Therapy Program kicks off with open house

The University of Arizona’s Physical Therapy Program introduced advanced learning studios where students will train over the next three years to enhance community health.

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

Close-up of nurse in light blue scrubs with stethoscope around neck writing on a clipboard with a hospital patient blurred in the background

Removing barriers to high-quality opioid use disorder care

A professor speaks with a student in a lab with computer language on the screen behind them.

Ready or not, AI is in your classroom

A photo illustration featuring 1950s Arizona Daily Star newspaper clippings and photos with the words Women’s History Month.

Nursing’s founding mothers were devoted to research

Portrait of Juyoung Park, PhD

Nursing’s Park accepted into pain group’s leadership academy

Two researchers in white coats stand in a lab.

Top 10 Health Sciences Connect stories of 2024

A young women in a graduation cap and gown pumps her arms in the air and smiles as a professor puts a ribbon around her neck

Nursing honors over 250 graduates at fall convocation

A person holds a blue asthma inhaler

U of A Health Sciences researchers receive $3.4M grant to improve asthma care in schools

CAMI Inaugural Executive Director Deepta Bhattacharya, PhD, a professor of immunobiology at the College of Medicine – Tucson; University of Arizona Health Sciences Senior Vice President Michael D. Dake, MD; Arizona Board of Regents Chair Cecelia Mata; University of Arizona President Suresh Garimella, PhD; City of Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego; and SmithGroup Design Director Mark Kranz, FAIA, stand side by side, holding shovels in dirt.

Cannabis terpenes, CAMI and long COVID: U of A Health Sciences’ top news releases of 2024

40 Under 40 list includes 3 from U of A Health Sciences

Poster with dozens of portraits of people in military uniforms. The poster text reads, “Veterans Day, Honoring all who served.”

Health Sciences veterans, we thank you for your service

A family stands together with the father, son and daughter all in dress military uniforms while the mom is in a red dress.

Nursing’s Reed goes from combat vet to classroom instructor

5 Health Sciences faculty members named 2024 Women of Impact