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Mari Ricker, MD, stands in front of a roomful of people at a table with different ingredients set on it.

How to succeed with New Year’s resolutions

U of A health experts offer tips on sticking to your goals and making changes in 2026.

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

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

portrait of rudy salcido with military memorabelia

Veteran applies military leadership skills to Health Sciences program

Six faculty and Doctor of Nursing Practice residents stand together outside holding cases of food and supplies to donate.

Nursing DNP faculty and resident veterans help homeless vets

Older man with glasses and white hair stands smiling in a lab wearing a white coat.

Paging Dr. Robot: Marvin Slepian on AI in health care

Christine Childers draws from her past as a dance teacher in her research as she helps shape the future of physical therapy for an aging population.

Making moves in the field of geriatric physical therapy

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

The Untangled Shadows art installation as seen from above.

Art engages more than just minds in Health Sciences

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

A powerful voice for her students

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?

John Galgiani, MD

Paving a path for Valley fever research, treatment, prevention

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