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Falloposcope cancer screening tool testing advances to next steps

Jennifer Barton, PhD, is spearheading an effort to diagnose ovarian cancer earlier and give high-risk patients a new option.

Amy Barber squats next to Scout, a yellow Lab, with one hand on the dog’s back.

Making a difference one pet therapy visit at a time

Two women, both wearing while lab coats, pose for a photo in a laboratory amid shelves filled with bottles and boxes of various colors and sizes.

U of A scientists link calorie restriction, glucagon, healthy aging

Three U of A faculty members honored by American College of Medical Informatics

Uniquely U of A Health Sciences

Shirin Doroudgar, PhD

Dr. Shirin Doroudgar Earns Health Sciences Career Development Award

Tara Sklar, professor of health law and director of the Health, Law and Policy program at the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, holds her father’s hand for the last time while he was in hospice. (photo courtesy of Tara Sklar)

Turning Childhood Trauma Into Advocacy for Older Adults

Meet a Medical Student Hoping to Improve Mental Health Services

Matthew Dodson, PhD

Dr. Matthew Dodson Earns Health Sciences Career Development Award

Sabrina Plattner (third from right), senior health educator at the Zuckerman College of Public Health, has dedicated her career to promoting programs that foster healthy lifestyle principles for eating and exercise to reduce childhood obesity.

Continuing a Legacy of Health Education and Outreach

Soil and dust ingestion by children can be a major source of exposure to chemicals such as lead, arsenic, pesticides and more.

EPA-funded Study Will Measure Soil and Dust Ingestion Levels in US Children

Public health undergraduate students are all smiles as they prepared to enter Centennial Hall for the 2022 Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health spring convocation.

Zuckerman College of Public Health Graduates 286 Students

Asmaa AbuMaziad, MD

Dr. Asmaa AbuMaziad Earns Career Development Award

Ahlam Althobaiti, PharmD, is hooded by John Regan, PhD, for earning her Doctor of Pharmacy degree during the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy 2022 spring convocation at Centennial Hall.

R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy Celebrates 198 Graduates

Ayman Fanous, MD, the new psychiatry chair at the UArizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, sees “precision psychiatry” as the wave of the future in behavioral health. Knowledge of an individual’s genetic makeup will allow us to develop safer and more effective treatment plans, he says.

Dr. Ayman Fanous Finds Music Among Tools to Explore the Mind

The All of Us Research Program has made nearly 100,000 highly diverse whole genome sequences available to researchers. About 50% of the genomes are from individuals who identify with racial or ethnic groups that historically have been underrepresented in research.

All of Us Research Program Releases 100,000 Whole Genome Sequences to Support Research Into Hundreds of Diseases

Randy Horwitz, MD, PhD

Dr. Randy Horwitz Named Year’s Integrative Medicine Physician