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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

group of researchers pose in a College of Medicine – Phoenix laboratory

Researchers exploring how intimate partner violence in pregnancy can affect offspring neurodevelopment

Three women wearing flowers in their hair, clap and laugh in an outdoor setting.

Health Sciences celebrates Día de los Muertos

Native American man dressed in traditional tribal attire performs a ceremony surrounded by doctors dressed in white coats

Bringing Native American healing practices to the university

Poster with about two dozen photos of men and women in milatary uniforms, some old photos, with text on the poster that reads, "Veterans Day, honoring all who served."

Thank you to all Health Sciences veterans

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

Graphic with 23 small portraits of medical students in their white coats with the text, "2023 Primary Care Physician Scholarship Recipients."

2023 Primary Care Physician Scholarship recipients

John Galgiani, MD

Paving a path for Valley fever research, treatment, prevention

Van Dexter Difuntorum Calo is one of 11 medical students at the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix to receive a Primary Care Physician Scholarship.

Future primary care doctors receive scholarships for medical school

Edgar A. Villavicencio does a FibroScan test on a Nosotros Comprometidos a Su Salud (Committed to Your Health) study participant.

Unsung heroes make Health Sciences labs work

Brielle Edwards (right), a student at the University of Arizona R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy, was one of five UArizona Health Sciences Quidel Ortho Global Scholarships recipients. Derrick Nwobodo (left), also a Coit College of Pharmacy student, received a QuidelOrtho Global Scholarship last year.

QuidelOrtho Global Health Scholarships awarded to UArizona Health Sciences students

portrait of karen hastings on the college of medicine phoenix campus

Hastings named inaugural chair of College of Medicine – Phoenix Department of Dermatology

Global Neurosurgical Alliance aims to push neuroscience research boundaries