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Can AI and a smartphone improve mental health treatment?

A graduate student is creating AI models to analyze smartphone data and detect behavioral changes that could lead to timely intervention and treatment.

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Micronutrient deficiency linked to chronic pain in new study

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Mingyu Liang works to transform physiology at U of A

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Toxic metals linked to impaired growth in infants in Guatemala

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

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Nursing DNP faculty and residents help homeless veterans

Six faculty and Doctor of Nursing Practice residents stand together outside holding cases of food and supplies to donate.

Nursing DNP faculty and resident veterans help homeless vets

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Slepian named Biomedical Engineering Society fellow

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Paging Dr. Robot: Marvin Slepian on AI in health care

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Study seeks to transform methadone treatment for opioid use disorder

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$13M NIH grant funds research aimed at revitalizing immune systems of older adults

Christine Childers draws from her past as a dance teacher in her research as she helps shape the future of physical therapy for an aging population.

Making moves in the field of geriatric physical therapy

A laboratory table has larg jars labeled "Zombie Virus" along with a couple of skulls and a manikin head with a mask sitting in a bowl.

Halloween spirit haunts the halls of Health Sciences

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2023 Primary Care Physician Scholarship recipients

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Alvarez inducted into AZ Pharmacy Association Hall of Fame

Diyana Ahmad, a second-year student at the Coit College of Pharmacy, holds a prescription bottle and discusses the medication with a male older adult patient.

Building bonds for better older adult health care

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$1.5M DOD grant will create virtual reality test to assess TBI in the field