March 15, 2019 Future Doctors Open Their Minds to Poetry A new collaboration between the UA College of Medicine – Tucson and the College of Humanities is focusing on teaching medical students empathy and compassion.
March 12, 2019 Weil Commits $15M to Name UA Center for Integrative Medicine A gift from integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Andrew Weil will ensure the UA is the world's nexus of integrative medicine education, research and innovation.
March 12, 2019 Study Links Cardiac Arrests to Opioid Overdoses Research completed by two UA medical students shows a tragic trend in overdose-related, out-of-hospital cardiac arrests in Arizona.
March 12, 2019 Latest Drug Regimens Provide 'Lazarus Effect' for HIV Patients Frailty related to HIV infection is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, according to a perspective article authored by a clinical team at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson.
Feb. 28, 2019 A Step Toward Better Treatments for Fibrosis UA researchers have developed a technology that could improve therapeutic strategies for fibrotic disorders, a leading cause of death in the U.S., and licensed it to startup Fibronox.
Feb. 11, 2019 Common Diabetes Drug May Help Heart Failure Patients A research team at the UA Sarver Heart Center investigated whether metformin, a common diabetes drug, could be an effective treatment for a type of heart failure that affects nearly half of all heart failure patients.
Feb. 1, 2019 Why Women? Studying the Role of Gender in Alzheimer’s Disease Roberta Diaz Brinton received a $5.9 million grant to study the role of gender in Alzheimer’s disease and develop precision medicine interventions to prevent — and potentially reverse — the course of the disease in both women and men.
Jan. 2, 2019 UA Researchers Developing 15-Minute MRI A team of UA researchers led by biomedical engineer Nan-kuei Chen is using a $2.1 million grant to improve MRI technologies for challenging patient populations.
Dec. 20, 2018 Reconnecting the Disconnected: Restoring Movement in Paralyzed Limbs Andrew Fuglevand is using artificial intelligence to stimulate multiple muscles to elicit natural movement in ways previous methods have been unable to do.
Dec. 18, 2018 Clinical Trial to Treat Liver Cancer Through Immunotherapy is Accepting Patients A clinical trial at the UA Cancer Center in Phoenix will be the first to use immunotherapy as a primary treatment option for liver cancer.
