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An automated system that uses AI can classify multiple diseases in different organ systems on body CT, potentially improving radiologist workflow and performance, according to new research.

Health experts in Arizona are on the lookout for unexplained cases of hepatitis in kids.

Gregory L. Hess, MD, the chief medical examiner for Pima County and an associate clinical assistant professor of pathology at the College of Medicine – Tucson, attributes his office’s ability to avoid the forensic pathologist shortage to the availability of the University of Arizona’s pathology residency program.

A study published in The American Journal of Medicine reveals a whole diet approach with increased intake of fruits, vegetables, nuts and fish, has more evidence for reducing cardiovascular risk than strategies focusing on reduced fat.

In a pandemic that has seen sharp divides between urban and rural vaccination rates nationwide, Arizona is the only state where rural vaccine rates outpaced more populated counties, according to a recent report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences are using a $6.7 million National Institutes of Health grant to study azithromycin therapy in preschoolers who are diagnosed with severe wheezing episodes at hospital emergency departments.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced Thursday that it was limiting the authorized use of the Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 vaccine for adults due to studies showing people developing life-threatening blood clots.

Lisa Quale, BS, the senior health educator at the University of Arizona Cancer Center’s Skin Cancer Institute, shares the best ways to protect your skin and the consequences of not protecting it.

Arizona scientists have hit a key milestone: They have sequenced over 100,000 SARS-CoV-2 genomes statewide since the start of the pandemic.

Rates of hospitalization and major amputations among racial and ethnic minority adults with diabetic foot ulcers decreased in states that adopted Medicaid expansion under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), according to researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences.