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 Trying to Keep Arsenic From Drinking Water

  • KNXV-TV
  • June 7, 2011
Scientists at the UA are researching the effects of arsenic in water with groundbreaking results. One study looks at how arsenic might cause bladder cancer and heart disease, and another project aims to reduce the amount of arsenic in well water.

Boys Who Bully May Grow Up to Be Abusive Men

  • U.S. News & World Report
  • June 7, 2011
A new study says that men who bully others during childhood are more likely to grow up and abuse their wives and girlfriends. Stephen T. Russell, director of the Frances McClelland Institute for Children, Youth and Families at the UA, said the study provides more evidence that bullying isn't "just a fact of growing."

UA Studies Forces on Bones as Kids Grow

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • June 6, 2011
UA researchers are studying the way children move to learn more about the forces placed upon bones as humans go from waddle to walk. The group is working alongside researchers at Penn State University and Ohio State University to complete the research, which is funded by the National Science Foundation.

24 High School Students Land Research Internships at UA

  • UANews
  • June 2, 2011
By mid-July, more than 100 Arizona teens will have completed KEYS internships and contributed to ongoing research projects across the University. The high school students will work in UA laboratories engaged in bioscience, bioengineering and environmental health science research.

Swearing May Help With Pain, But at a Social Cost

  • UANews
  • June 1, 2011
A new study by UA psychologists indicates that swearing might initially make you feel better, but it's at the risk of alienating those around you. The findings are published by the American Psychological Association.

Clinical Trial to Treat Septic Shock Under Way at UMC

  • UANews
  • May 31, 2011
A clinical trial of a new device to treat severe sepsis – the leading cause of death in hospital intensive care units – is under way at UMC. The death rate can be as high as 60 percent for people with underlying medical problems, and some 250,000 Americans die of severe sepsis annually.

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