Oct. 2, 2023 Student-faculty team of inventors devises tools to address orthopedic challenges The startup Ancerix is working to commercialize much-needed instruments for surgical hardware removal. The team worked with Tech Launch Arizona to file patents and license its intellectual property.
Sept. 27, 2023 Insights: Vaccines, variants and COVID-19 trends University of Arizona immunologist Deepta Bhattacharya discusses in this Q&A the newest COVID-19 vaccines and what the future might hold for COVID-19 immunizations.
Aug. 22, 2023 UArizona student, 16, wants answers about gifted minds, especially his own At 16, Tadeusz Borowski is one of the youngest first-year students to start at UArizona this fall, after graduating from high school two years early. His studies in medicine, he hopes, will shed light on how gifted minds develop.
July 28, 2023 Urgent Care data shows Valley fever season has begun in Arizona Arizonans who get pneumonia should ask to be tested for Valley fever, says Dr. John Galgiani, director of the Valley Fever Center for Excellence. Half of all U.S. Valley fever infections occur in the Phoenix metropolitan area.
July 19, 2023 Beat summertime sadness with these cool tips Seasonal depression isn't limited to cold and gloomy winters. University of Arizona assistant professor of psychiatry Dr. Rohit Madan shares advice for keeping spirits high when the summertime blues hit.
July 14, 2023 Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center receives $7.8M NIH grant The Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center received a $7.8 million grant to further research on environmental and health challenges in the Southwest.
July 14, 2023 Second-year medical student selected as Tillman Scholar Alexander Hilser, a student at the UArizona College of Medicine – Tucson, was one of 60 people honored this year by the Pat Tillman Foundation. Hilser served in the Air Force as a pararescueman.
July 5, 2023 Study shows how morphine may contribute to bone loss and cancer-induced bone pain Opioids such as morphine are the gold standard for treating cancer-induced bone pain, but new research uncovers how chronic morphine use may increase bone loss and pain.
June 12, 2023 State-of-the-art MRI machine to advance research on brain's inner workings Thanks to an equipment grant from the National Institutes of Health, UArizona will be among the first institutions in the country to receive a new MRI system that can produce clearer and more comprehensive images of the brain.
May 30, 2023 Study provides deeper insight into long COVID Symptoms of long COVID include fatigue, brain fog and dizziness that last for months or years after a person is initially infected. A study of nearly 10,000 Americans found that long COVID may be more common and severe in those infected before the 2021 omicron variant.
