Covering an area the size of New England with only 200,000 people spread across it, Arizona’s Four Corners region offers austere, beautiful landscapes but can be daunting because of poor roads for physicians and patients alike to navigate to provide or receive medical care. (Photo courtesy of UA Native American Cardiology & Medical Service Program)
Bringing Neurology Care to Arizona’s Four Corners Region The UA's Dr. David Labiner has offered quarterly neurology clinics at Indian Health Service and health-care facilities on the Navajo and Hopi reservations for about 15 years and bimonthly ones in Flagstaff for 20 years. Common consultations include treating patients for epilepsy, Parkinson's or Alzheimer's disease, stroke recovery, headaches and neuropathy.
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UA Study Finds Improved CPR Quality Saves Lives Life-saving CPR has been a foundation of emergency medicine for more than a half-century. But UA researchers are continuing to refine the procedure, with a new study concluding that improving the quality and effectiveness of CPR can have a dramatic impact on survival from a cardiac arrest.
Transgenic soybeans in the last stages of tissue culture.
Modified Formula Aims to Prevent Death in Premature Infants UA plant scientists are studying a novel approach at halting the leading cause of death in premature infants, adding a particular protein to soybeans that can be used in formula as a preventative measure. About 10 percent of infants in the United States are born premature and among the greatest risks those babies face is Necrotizing Entercolitis, an infection and inflammation that causes destruction of the intestine.
Krishna Veeramah, the study’s first author, and his colleagues took advantage of the high-throughput DNA sequencing capabilities offered by the UA Genetics Core, housed at the UA BIO5 Institute. (Photo by Patrick McArdle/UANews)
UA Geneticists Find Causes for Severe Childhood Epilepsies Using a DNA sequencing technique capable of deciphering all human genes at the same time, UA researchers have discovered genetic mutations underlying seizure disorders in previously undiagnosed children. Efforts are under way to establish a genomics diagnostic center at the UA and extend the capabilities to other areas such as cardiology, immunology and gastroenterology.
UA researchers studied brain images of 124 cognitively normal, non-diabetic adults with a family history of Alzheimer's disease.
UA Research Suggests Link Between Elevated Blood Sugar, Alzheimer's Risk A new UA study, published in the journal Neurology, suggests a possible link between elevated blood sugar levels and risk for developing Alzheimer's disease. Through three-dimensional brain imaging, researchers found an association between elevated blood sugar levels and reduced metabolism in vulnerable regions of the brain.
Covering an area the size of New England with only 200,000 people spread across it, Arizona’s Four Corners region offers austere, beautiful landscapes but can be daunting because of poor roads for physicians and patients alike to navigate to provide or receive medical care. (Photo courtesy of UA Native American Cardiology & Medical Service Program)
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Transgenic soybeans in the last stages of tissue culture.
Krishna Veeramah, the study’s first author, and his colleagues took advantage of the high-throughput DNA sequencing capabilities offered by the UA Genetics Core, housed at the UA BIO5 Institute. (Photo by Patrick McArdle/UANews)
UA researchers studied brain images of 124 cognitively normal, non-diabetic adults with a family history of Alzheimer's disease.

UA Institute to Explore Link Between Physical Environment, Health

  • UANews
  • January 31, 2013
The UA's Institute for Place and Wellbeing will explore the connection between the physical environment and human health and well-being. A partnership of the UA College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture, the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine in the UA College of Medicine, and the UA Institute of the Environment, the interdisciplinary institute will focus on research and education about human reactions to physical space.

Germs Spread Fast at Work, Study Finds

  • UANews
  • January 30, 2013
When someone comes to work sick, about half of the commonly touched surfaces in the office become infected by lunchtime, according to a new UA study. Researchers found that simple interventions, such as hand washing and the use of hand sanitizer or disinfecting wipes, can reduce employees' risk of infection by as much as 80 percent.

Digging Deep in the DNA

  • The New York Times
  • January 30, 2013
Former UA postdoctoral researcher Hopi Hoekstra is a leading scientist in the cutting-edge field called genetics of behavior - a huge enterprise with great progress being made in a variety of species. Hoekstra's work is unusual in that it deals with a naturally occurring, complicated behavior in mammals that is important for survival.

UA Science Lecture Series: Genomics Now

  • UANews
  • January 28, 2013
The UA College of Science's popular spring lecture series, Genomics Now, will present six free lectures exploring the astonishing advances in genomics research. The first lecture will be on Jan. 30 at 7 p.m. in Centennial Hall on the UA campus.

UA Awarded More Than $3M to Track Mosquito-Borne Illnesses

  • UANews
  • January 25, 2013
The National Institutes of Health awarded the UA's Kacey Ernst more than $3 million in 2012 for research to prevent the mosquito-borne infectious diseases that cause malaria and dengue. Ernst has a personal connection to the cause because of her ties to Kenya, a place she has traveled to for 15 years since completing her master's research in the country.

Food Combos Can Help Slow Aging, Fight Disease

  • The Arizona Republic
  • January 25, 2013
Patients in their 60s can reverse age-related disease by adopting healthier eating habits, said Dr. Tieraona Low Dog of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine "Diet is the foundation for better health," she said. Low Dog recommends an 80-20 balance, with the bulk of your food being healthful, and the remaining part, "anything you want to eat."

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