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UANews | The UA College of Medicine-Phoenix has begun construction on the Health Sciences Education Building at the Phoenix Biomedical Campus. The building will allow for the expansion of medical education facilities.

UANews | Barbara Cone, a professor in the UA's speech, language and hearing sciences department, is leading a team researching ways to improve diagnostic testing of  hearing loss in infants.

UANews | Dr. Andrew Weil, the author of best sellers and a nationally recognized expert in the field of integrative medicine, will give a public talk Thursday, Oct. 21, at the UA College of Medicine-Phoenix.   

UANews | UA graduate student Dr. Abdul Tawab Saljuqi and his colleagues have developed Soapeace, Inc., a company that seeks to reduce infection, mortality and unemployment in Afghanistan through the sustainable production, distribution and sale of affordable soap.

UANews | A UA student-led health professions organization will host an educational conference Oct. 16-17 that includes a trip to visit medical facilities in Mexico to gain an understanding of border health needs.

UANews | UA family studies researchers report in the journal Developmental Psychology that high school students whose sexual orientation is at odds with social gender norms often find themselves victims of harassment and, later on in life, with psychological problems.

UANews | Research by UA Sarver Heart Center doctors found that chest-compression-only CPR by lay individuals is associated with better survival for patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest compared with CPR that calls for chest compressions interrupted by mouth-to-mouth "rescue breaths."

UANews | UA family studies professor Bruce J. Ellis has developed a theoretical framework for understanding how elements of change and stress often guide the behavior of young people.

UANews | For the third consecutive year, University Medical Center on the UA campus has won a coveted Quality Leadership Award from the University HealthSystem Consortium, a national organization comprised of 107 U.S. academic medical centers.

UANews | Pak Kin Wong aims to discover the rules that govern how biological tissues are formed from individual cells. He is investigating how to grow new tissue to replace that destroyed by disease.