Higley's Williams Field High School in Gilbert will see 340 students receive diplomas this year. Those students have already been awareded $5.6 million in scholarships.

FastMed Urgent Care, operator of more than 20 urgent care locations throughout Arizona — including nine in the East Valley — announced earlier this month the acquisition of Sports Medicine Express.

Parents of school-aged kids may remember taking a physical fitness test that involved running the 50-yard dash and performing a zig-zag run (shuttle run) along with other tests such as the pull-up. Grandparents may remember throwing a softball, running or walking 600 yards, or doing the flexed arm hang. Over time youth physical fitness tests have changed. Now the national test, called FITNESSGRAM, produced by the Cooper Institute in Dallas and co-sponsored by the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition and the American Alliance for Health Physical Education and Recreation, includes test items that relate to health rather than sports-related test items included in earlier tests.

The best Friday night for Jess Pierce calls for her to do nothing more than enjoy the sideline view at every Mountain Pointe football game.

New research powerfully strengthens the case against soda and other sugary drinks as culprits in the obesity epidemic.

Should an injury sideline you, the Arizona Orthopedic Surgical Hospital (AOSH) is offering free orthopedic sports injury evaluations on Saturdays this fall. These sessions will be conducted by orthopedic surgeons who specialize in sports medicine and include both an evaluation and treatment recommendation.

Doctors and staff from Scottsdale Healthcare Shea Campus are going to Hollywood this weekend for a cause: to battle cancer with the stars.

"Cardio, cardio, cardio." Sound advice from my favorite gynecologist. I believe in the many healthful benefits of cardiovascular workouts, perform them faithfully and tout their many benefits to others. But I have noticed that many women -- almost 80 percent of them, according to one study -- rely only on cardio-based exercise and ignore the all-important strength-conditioning component of fitness.

Finding a club an important part of high school

LEBANON, Ohio (AP) — As he sat in the doctor's office, ex-boxer and weightlifter Gerald Dixon explained that years of sports had left him in pain, especially his hands, and he was looking for relief.

He was a standout high school baseball player at Desert Ridge High School, and had a successful college stint at South Mountain Community College.

LOS ANGELES — A pig-tailed girl whose favorite accessory is a pink stethoscope has become a symbol of pride and hope for black women in medicine and the daughters they want to inspire.

What started as a small group of people looking for a group to run with has turned into an organization of 100 runners of all experience levels training together for marathons and half marathons across the Valley.

Mountain Pointe High School graduate Garrett Frantz is 22 years old and graduates from Arizona State University on May 3, Summa Cum Laude, from the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is being honored by Dean Johnson with the Moeur Award for having a 4.0 GPA in all of his classes while attending the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Garrett has participated in biomedical research throughout his engineering degree program at ASU. He has volunteered his skills and time at the Hospice of the Valley and the Virginia G. Piper Medical and Dental Clinic to help patients in need. For his many hours of community service, he was honored with a Gold Presidential Community Service Award and letter of appreciation from President Obama. This year, Garrett has accepted an invitation from the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine at Phoenix to attend their medical school program. He will be a member of the incoming class of 2012.

Mountain Pointe High School graduate Garrett Frantz is 22 years old and graduates from Arizona State University on May 3, Summa Cum Laude, from the Department of Biomedical Engineering. He is being honored by Dean Johnson with the Moeur Award for having a 4.0 GPA in all of his classes while attending the Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering. Garrett has participated in biomedical research throughout his engineering degree program at ASU. He has volunteered his skills and time at the Hospice of the Valley and the Virginia G. Piper Medical and Dental Clinic to help patients in need. For his many hours of community service, he was honored with a Gold Presidential Community Service Award and letter of appreciation from President Obama. This year, Garrett has accepted an invitation from the University of Arizona’s College of Medicine at Phoenix to attend their medical school program. He will be a member of the incoming class of 2012.

She may not be going on to compete nationally, but that doesn’t mean Adrianna Henderson isn’t a winner in the eyes of the kids she works with on a daily basis.

This isn’t a sob story.

High school sports rivalries don’t always last forever.

High school sports rivalries don’t always last forever.

It’s common perception, explains Dr. Dennis Crandall, that spine surgery is a last resort — a surgery that often doesn’t even benefit the patient much at all.

Thanks to a year's worth of ugly surgeries and two rehabs, Chris LoConti may have found his future.

Feeling under the weather, Andrew De Valk sought medical advice close to work.