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UANews | The funding will enable the center to continue serving as a regional and national resource for training graduate-level students to care for children with chronic pulmonary disorders.

UANews | UA researcher Catherine Marshall found herself unprepared to help her father deal with cancer. Her experiences led to a book to help guide families and caregivers on how to face those issues.

UANews | The funding will go toward training Arizona health professionals – physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, pharmacists, public health workers and social workers – in how to care for older adults. 

UANews | Students from throughout Arizona are working as paid researchers in the Summer Institute on Medical Ignorance, a UA College of Medicine program that runs through this week.

UANews | As the school year approaches, UA microbiologist Kelly Reynolds provides easy-to-follow suggestions that families can follow to keep healthy. 

UANews | The UA's Jeong-Yeol Yoon is using glass-slide laboratories to detect E. coli in water and vegetables and to monitor disease in livestock.

UANews | By using mathematical modeling to understand blood flow, researchers – including the UA's Timothy Secomb, a pioneer in the field – have proposed a novel approach to treating cancerous tumors.

UANews | For the first time, UA entomologists have genetically altered mosquitoes in a way that renders them immune to the parasite that causes malaria. Researchers hope someday to replace wild mosquitoes with resistant, lab-bred populations.

UANews | Proyecto Vision, led by UA optometrist Daniel Twelker, trains visual-health workers to perform vision screening and dispense over-the-counter reading glasses and eye drops.

UANews | UA researchers found that nearly 20 percent of the 348 women they studied with Type II endometrial cancer had a prior history of breast cancer, compared to only 3 percent in a control group of 830 women with the more common form of the cancer.

UANews | UA researchers participated in the discovery of an unexpected role played by a protein molecule, making it a candidate for a biomarker or drug target for breast cancer.

UANews | The funds will go toward improving the collection and dissemination of information, coordinating health resources and activities, and encouraging the recruitment and retention of health professionals in rural areas.

UANews | The intensive academic program is for Arizona students entering their senior year of high school who are interested in health professions.

UANews | Chris Segrin has authored a book chapter detailing the often-ignored social aspects of depression. His research has found that not only do depressed people sometimes lack social skills, but the way in which their relationships operate can contribute to increased feelings of depression.  

UANews | The origin of the evolutionary game – the ability of animals (including humans) and plants to reproduce sexually, genetically recombine to repair DNA, and produce eggs, sperm or pollen – is an unresolved mystery in biology. UA researchers have a new theory that provides insights into the early evolution of sexual organisms.