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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

Halszka Glowacka sits at a conference table surrounded by students with a screen with writing on it in the background.

Anthropology provides backbone to Glowacka’s work

two parents and four children sitting on a bench. The father is wearing military camoflauge fatigues and a beret

QuidelOrtho Global Health Scholar turns dreams into reality

Several University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy students wearing white coats raise their hands and cheer as they walk outside.

College of Pharmacy class of 2025 receives its white coats

A student and professor, both wearing white lab coats, pose for a photo in a laboratory

$1.8M NIH grant will help researchers follow a virus on its path to the nucleus

Experts say CAMI may help alter medicine forever

Portrait of a woman with long brown hair wearing a white shirt sits outside smiling.

Barbra Solares named Residency Coordinator of the Year

Doctor giving prescription to a patient and filling out medical form on a clipboard

Should I talk to my doctor about cannabis?

a study participant walking toward two cameras set up on tripods in an empty room at the University of Arizona Health Sciences

A new perspective to prevent falls in older adults

Dr. Jennifer Barton stands in front of a building that has “SPIE” on it holding a sign that reads, “Photonics West 2024 has arrived.”

Barton serving as president of global optics, photonics society

University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix student James Bates teaches high school student Maalavika Menon how to do CPR.

Health Sciences colleges ready, willing to help community

Portrait of Dr. Amit Algotar from the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson wearing a white physician’s coat.

Algotar named ACPM Fellow, joins disability advisory group

‘In the future, syringes and pills will be obsolete’