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Photo of four smiling women crouched by a box covered in Christmas wrapping paper, holding toys and stockings.

Student club spreads holiday cheer to the needy in Mexico

MexZona volunteers take toys along with their clinical skills for a special December medical clinic.

Two men hold a giant pair of scissors as they prepare to cut a ceremonial ribbon as a group of about 10 other people look on.

U of A College of Medicine – Phoenix and Onvida Health announce groundbreaking rural health partnership

Two men and a woman, all dressed in hard hats and reflective mining jackets, looks at a mining facility in the distance. Their backs are to the camera.

U of A and mining company launch community health impact assessment in Santa Cruz County

A closeup of a long scar on a woman's shoulder.

A type of immune cell could hold a key to preventing scar tissue buildup in wounds

Uniquely U of A 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

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

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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