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AZ Week: Health Care Happiness or Horror?

Across the spectrum, court-backed Affordable Care Act lauded, lambasted

Mary Wach, a student at the UA College of Nursing is entering a field where there is a definite shortage.

As Demand Rises, UA Offers Speedy Nurse Schooling

Field expected to grow 26% in 8 years; some opt for career change

Web Feature: Arsenic and Old Toenails

Researchers turn to clippings to track Arizonans’ arsenic exposure

Mark Marty Pagel, PhD, a UA Cancer Center expert will receive a $2 million grant from the National Institute of Health to study the effectiveness of baking soda therapy to treat breast cancer.

Can Baking Soda Battle Breast Cancer?

Tucson researcher receives $2 million grant to explore a new medical possibility

Arizona needs 700 more primary-care physicians just to get to the national average.

More M.D.s Needed Under New Health Law

Arizona already well short of national average for primary care physicians

AZ Week: Health Care Costs Unsustainable

Return to free market, economist says; fix Medicare, Medicaid, others say

Jennie Grabel, executive director for the Fund for Civility, Respect and Understanding, says anti-bullying, mental health support top the fund's agenda.

Civility Groups Forging Projects

Updates from two organizations formed after Jan. 8 shooting

UA Muscular Dystrophy Study Expanding

Steele Children’s Research Center receives $1.35 million grant

For many cancer patients, clinical trials offer a way to change the course of cancer research--and their own disease.

Patients Seek Hope Through Trials

Clinical trials offer cancer patients a chance at treatment and a role in research

The smallpox vaccine diluent in a syringe along side a vial of Dryvax® dried smallpox vaccine.

Researchers Probe Dramatic Drop In Vaccinations

Arizona parents choosing not to vaccinate their children has doubled in a single decade

Twenty veterans from around the U.S. will get a tour of the UA that includes athletics clinics and sessions on how to take advantage of their higher education benefits. At the 4-day camp, vets will attend athletic clinics and learn from coaches and student-athletes.

Web Feature: On the Playing Field, Life Goes On

An all-veteran, all-amputee softball team reconnects with their love for the game

We talk to a person who required heart surgery due to her Lupus and now sits on the board of directors for the Lupus Foundation of Southern Arizona. We also speak to a research assistant professor at the UofA who is working on this topic.

Living with Lupus

Researchers and survivors in Tucson raise awareness of an often misunderstood disease

Dr. John Galgiani, director of the UA Valley Fever Center for Excellence, has studied Valley Fever for 30 years.

Valley Fever: Common, Yet Misdiagnosed

Improper diagnosis is common and can cost patients their health, or their lives

Tucson's Chapel Haven school teaches students with autism spectrum disorders and mild disabilities to live independently.

A Haven for the Different

Students with autism spectrum disorders and other conditions learn independent living in Tucson

Marie Chisholm-Burns, a professor at the University of Arizona's College of Pharmacy, discusses the value of involving pharmacists in patient care.

Rx to the Rescue

When pharmacists take part in patient care, patients fare better--and their care costs less

UA-Based Clinic Helps Patients Who Have Lost Hope

Dubbed the “Clinic of Hope” by many, the Disability Assessment Research Clinic at the University of Arizona is a place where patients with chronic illness often end up as a last resort, as they feel they’re losing controls of their lives.

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