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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

Academic-community educational partnerships like the one between the Arizona Area Health Education Center Program and the Center for Excellence in Rural Education aim to improve the supply and distribution of health care professionals in rural areas. The AzAHEC-CERE partnership will serve Gila, Graham and Greenlee counties, which are home to many small towns including Payson, Arizona (pictured).

Arizona Area Health Education Center welcomes CERE as Regional AHEC Center

A $10 million grant from the EPA will allow researchers to advance environmental justice, which is defined as the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations and policies.

EPA awards UArizona $10M for new environmental justice center

The Arizona Area Health Education Centers Program seeks to improve the supply and distribution of health care professionals, particularly primary and preventive care, in Arizona’s rural and medically underserved communities.

Arizona AHEC: Filling a need for health care professionals

UArizona Health Sciences researcher at the forefront of Indigenous data sovereignty

UArizona Health Sciences researcher at the forefront of Indigenous data sovereignty

Second annual Washington summit to focus on healthy aging

Second annual Washington summit to focus on healthy aging

Arizona Perinatal Psychiatry Access Line to open June 1

Arizona Perinatal Psychiatry Access Line to open June 1

UArizona Phoenix campus hosts Go Girl Scouts Go STEAM Camp

Older folks practicing Ti Chi

University of Arizona Arthritis Center to host virtual “Living Healthy with Arthritis” symposium with spotlight on culinary medicine

ASTEC Students

Sunnyside Unified High School students to get a taste for a future in medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson