Medicine

Adam Buntzman's back began to hurt and he had difficulty drawing a breath. He was fatigued. Eventually, he was diagnosed with Valley fever, and now the research assistant professor is part of a team working on a vaccine that could be the answer for human and pet sufferers. With UANews video.

A five-year National Institute on Aging program project grant will be led by Roberta Diaz Brinton, inaugural director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science at the UA Health Sciences.

Joint programs could send UA-trained health professionals to the west African nation, which has been decimated by war and illness and now has fewer than 50 medical doctors.

UA researcher Adam Buntzman is merging computer science and immunology to improve cancer diagnostics by up to 100 times the accuracy of conventional tests.

A four-year National Institutes of Health grant totaling nearly $1.3 million will help in developing a novel tool that would be used to identify the earliest signs of the cancer.

A new research journal founded by two UA medical students will provide a platform to promote the intellectual curiosity and the scientific achievements of students within the college.

Some residents of the city of Bisbee, Arizona, 90 miles southeast of Tucson, have concerns about the bugs, whose bite can trigger an allergic reaction and also transmit disease. UA researchers are working with local health officials, and here is what they have found. With UANews video.

Researchers from two of the states with the fastest-growing populations of older adults will partner on a study of a possible intervention for preventing, halting or reversing cognitive decline.

The center is the first of its kind in the U.S. to conduct research into acute-onset neuropsychiatric disorders that historically have been misdiagnosed or undiagnosed in children.

The UA Health Sciences is blazing a trail with the personalized, patient-directed approach necessary to improve treatment outcomes for certain cancers with a poor prognosis.