Sept. 30, 2019 Program to Ensure Rural Access to Health Care Receives Federal Funding Boost A $3.5 million federal grant will fund a University of Arizona Health Sciences program designed to provide technical assistance and other support to rural hospitals and clinics in Arizona.
Sept. 30, 2019 Which Comes First: Smartphone Dependency or Depression? New research suggests a person's reliance on his or her smartphone predicts greater loneliness and depressive symptoms, as opposed to the other way around.
Sept. 30, 2019 $3.6M Grant Will Help Develop New Method to Detect, Diagnose Breast Cancer University of Arizona researchers will use a $3.6 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to develop computerized technology that will provide 3D images to help identify cancerous breast tissue.
Sept. 26, 2019 Researchers to Evaluate Sexual Assault Prevention Program in Arizona Bars A $3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help a team including University of Arizona researchers evaluate the effectiveness of "Safer Bars" program, a program designed to help staff recognize and safely intervene in situations that could lead to sexual violence.
Sept. 26, 2019 Startup Licenses Carbon Fiber Tech to Treat Broken Bones, Receives Funding An Arizona professor has has invented a flexible carbon fiber fabric designed to be inserted inside and around a fractured bone. The technology has been licensed to a startup and has already received venture capital funding to take it forward.
Sept. 25, 2019 Students Tackle 21st Century Sustainability Challenges on the Navajo Nation UA students working on food, energy and water insecurity among Indigenous communities build an off-the-grid water filtration system on the Navajo Nation.
Sept. 17, 2019 Study Changes Guidelines for Sepsis Management A new study from a team including a University of Arizona researcher shows when physicians administer antibiotics could impact their ability to effectively diagnose and treat sepsis.
Sept. 16, 2019 Renegade Genes Caught Red Handed Potentially dangerous genes embedded in human DNA were thought to be locked down by helpful structures called heterochromatin, but a UA researcher disputes that belief.
Sept. 6, 2019 Can the Alzheimer's Brain Regenerate and Recover? A $37.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will allow the University of Arizona Center for Innovation in Brain Science to further test a unique Alzheimer's disease treatment.
Sept. 4, 2019 UA Awarded $1.4M Grant To Support Sleep Apnea Patients People with sleep apnea who struggle with CPAP treatment, which saves lives but is difficult for many patients to follow, could find relief through a peer-support program a UA professor is helping create.
