Health & Wellness

After a virulent strain of COVID-19 hospitalized her father five years ago, Rain Elika Dimaliwat found her purpose: Become a doctor, save lives and reunite families.

U of A researchers developed the first reliable tool to analyze how people talk to their pets on a day-to-day basis, which may hold clues to why pets affect the well-being of some owners more than others.

The NIH recently granted the U of A College of Medicine – Tucson nearly $2.3 million over five years to fund additional seats for students pursuing dual doctoral and medical degrees.

The U of A has been approved for $30.6 million to support research conducted as part of a large public health initiative to implement and evaluate prehospital blood transfusion.

A landmark partnership reflects a new approach to preparing physicians for Tribal, rural and medically underserved communities.

The R. Ken Coit College of Pharmacy has received a full accreditation term for its Doctor of Pharmacy program.

Few spiders elicit as much fear as the brown recluse, but most people are far less likely to run into one or get bitten than they think, according to U of A researcher Matthew Cordes.

Associate professor Gerardo "Jerry" Lopez spoke about why cyclospora is so hard to trace, how people can protect themselves, and what most people get wrong about it.

A team of University of Arizona engineers led by Minkyu Kim will hide lifesaving drugs in synthetic cell-like carriers to reduce side effects.

U of A researchers have found a promising experimental drug that could shield nerve cells from the damage of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a devastating neurodegenerative disease.