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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

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

Soldiers crouching down and communicating

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

Happy senior woman and caregiver walking outdoors

Empowering loved ones: conquering the fear of falling

The Untangled Shadows art installation as seen from above.

Art engages more than just minds in Health Sciences

A rectangle image with six portraits of women with the words, "Women of Impact".

6 Health Sciences faculty named 2023 Women of Impact

Students take part in a clean-up activity in Willcox, Arizona.

AZ-HOPE receives $3.2M HRSA grant to support future health care professionals

When an astrocyte’s mitochondria (magenta) are impaired, they are unable to break down lipid waste (cyan), and the buildup of extra fat (white spots) might be accelerating the progression of Alzheimer’s disease.

Brain’s self-cleaning machinery may be key to Alzheimer’s

South Asian man with grey beard stands wearing a black suit, white shirt and red tie. His arms are folded and he is smiling.

Rehman receives Advocate for Internal Medicine Award

A powerful voice for her students

A 2018 predoctoral National Institutes of Health Translational Research in Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementias training grant that successfully trained 15 graduate students at the Center for Innovation in Brain Science has been renewed for five years.

NIA grant supports training of next generation of Alzheimer’s disease researchers

Comprehensive Center for Pain and Addiction researchers say reclassifying cannabis as a Schedule III substance would loosen the restraints on research into possible benefits, as well as any potential negative side effects, of medical marijuana.

Should cannabis still be a Schedule I drug?

A woman with long blonde hair and a white suite coat stands with a man in a suite on either side of a banner that reads AANA Fellows.

College of Nursing’s Hoch and Reed honored as AANA fellows