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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

A person indoors using an arm resistance band

Slower arm movements linked to greater fall risk for older adults

Onicio Leal Neto, PhD, MPH, stands at a desk next to a table full of people with laptops open in front of them.

Public Health launches first AI summer program

Portrait of professor Rina Fox smiling as she stands in front of a red wall with a large “A” on it.

Nursing’s Rina Fox recognized for work in behavioral cancer care

2 Health Sciences-led teams win awards in Big Idea Challenge

A young woman dressed in a graduation cap and gown and wearing a turquoise necklace and traditional Native American dress holds back tears as a professor places a graduation hood over her shoulders while another professor looks on.

Zuckerman College of Public Health celebrates Class of 2025

Skoll Foundation gift

$5M Skoll Foundation gift will help protect communities from future pandemics

Kacey Ernst, PhD, holds her hands at her chest while talking to students.

Kacey Ernst keeps tackling pressing public health issues

Health care worker in mask and surgical gown putting on a glove

Health care workers, firefighters have increased PFAS levels, study finds

Two students standing back to back with their arms crossed in the lobby of the Health Sciences Innovation Building.

Improving health literacy through leadership, connection

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Health Sciences colleges merge art and humanities with science

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A tale of two cities and a health mystery

A doctor wearing surgical gear looks at a computer screen as he conducts a colonoscopy on a patient.

Patient navigators improve colonoscopy rates after abnormal stool tests, study shows