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Falloposcope cancer screening tool testing advances to next steps

Jennifer Barton, PhD, is spearheading an effort to diagnose ovarian cancer earlier and give high-risk patients a new option.

Medical students Jerry Ruvalcaba and Katie Simic stand side by side outdoors, smiling in their white lab coats embroidered with titles from the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Phoenix.

Couple commits to caring for Phoenix together

A decorative image shows a cell as it travels through the body.

Why does losing the Y chromosome make some cancers worse? New $6.5M NIH grant could provide clues

A microscopic view of cells shows one large purple cell surrounded by smaller "normal" cells. The purple cell is about four times the size of the normal cells.

Researchers find potential link between chronic pain, immune condition

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

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Study links vaginal microbiome differences to higher cervical cancer rates in Native American women

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

A group of people poses in front of a 15-foot saguaro lit up by LED lights.

Health Sciences faculty adapt holiday traditions to desert

Portrait of Kenna Stephenson, MD

When her dreams speak, Kenna Stephenson listens

A composite with a photo of the College of Medicine – Phoenix’s Office of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion team on the top and the College of Medicine – Tucson’s Access, Community and Belonging team on the bottom.

U of A medical colleges receive national diversity awards

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

Six smiling people in suits and dresses hold shovels in sand with a University of Arizona Health Sciences banner in front of them.

CAMI groundbreaking ushers in new era for Health Sciences

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Jonathan Lifshitz named to NIH neurological study section

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New therapeutic target for cardiac arrhythmias emerges

portrait of College of Medicine Phoenix researcher Inna Gladysheva

NIH supports researcher’s effort to discover better treatments for heart failure

portrait of Aaron McGee in a research lab at the University of Arizona College of Medicine Phoenix

New research suggests synaptic plasticity is more autonomous than previously thought

Portrait of Ricardo Correa, MD, of the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix’s Divison of Endocrinology, outside next to a mural.

Ricardo Correa filling the gap for the underserved