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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

Crowd of people sitting at tables watching Dr. Iman Hakim, dean of the University of Arizon Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, speak at a podium.

Hundreds honor Mel Zuckerman at celebration of life

Illustration of man on bench with COVID-19 virus

Arizona CoVHORT research study receives award to continue investigation of long COVID

The reception area at the new University of Arizona Clinical and Translational Sciences Research Center is large, modern and filled with natural light — all improvements over the center’s old space.

CATS Center opens modernized, larger facility

The arid climate of the Southwestern U.S. provides researchers at the University of Arizona with a real-world laboratory to study the effects of climate change on human health both locally and across the globe.

A look at the cost of climate change on human health

Members of the Health Sciences Research Administration’s Walkie Talkie teams walk regularly during lunch. There are four Walkie Talkie teams with a total of 26 members.

Move AZ improves health and community in Health Sciences

UArizona researchers launch the Great Arizona Tick Check

Remembering public health champion Mel Zuckerman

Esteban Ramirez, a student from Pima County JTED, a technical education program for high school students, bumps fists with Nathan Cherrington, PhD (right), director of the Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center, at a January tour of his lab in the R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy.

SWEHSC Delivers With Collaboration, Research Success

Female professor with dark curly hair wearing sunglasses holds three heart-shaped posters.

Tips From the Heart, for the Heart

Service-Learning Course Opens Doors for Bilingual Students

PeerWORKS apprentices gain the education and work experience needed to become a behavioral health paraprofessional, placing them in a unique position to reach out and support individuals in recovery through their own lived experiences.

Training Program Turns Lived Experiences into Peer Support

Among UArizona Health Sciences’ first Black faculty in their college, department, division or role are (from left) Nafis Shamsid-Deen, MD, FCCP; Victoria Murrain, DO; Jocelyn Nelms, MS, NEd, RN; Sheila Hill Parker, DrPH, MPH, MS; James C. Dunn, Sr., MD; and Marie Chisholm-Burns, PharmD, PhD, MPH, MBA.

Health Sciences Black Faculty on Diversity, Inspiring Change