JILL MARICICH/Arizona Summer Wildcat Dr. William McCrady takes the heart rate of Angie Robinson, a systems industrial engineering graduate student, at Campus Health Service on Monday. Campus Health offers the same range of care as other doctorsâ offices, providing everything from physical exams and gynecological care to travel immunizations for students visiting foreign countries.

College life comes with lots of perks.

Football games.

Independence.

Pizza.

But, like life elsewhere, there are downsides. The flu periodically sweeps through campus. Students get injuries from sports, recreation and minor accidents. And, of course, there are all the normal aches and pains of life, compounded by stress from papers, deadlines and tests.

What to do?

Go to Campus Health Service.

Campus Health is UAâs student health center. It offers complete health care to students, including students who donât have health insurance.

But most freshmen donât even know thereâs a place they can go when theyâre hurting.

ãFreshmen donât have a clue that this place exists,ä said Lisette LeCorgne, a nurse practitioner who works in the acute care center of Campus Health.

Campus Health is located in one of the busiest areas on the university campus, north of the Mall and Main Library and east of the Psychology building.

Campus Health offers the same range of care as other doctorâs offices, providing everything from physical exams and gynecological care to travel immunizations for students visiting foreign countries

The center also offers a full-service pharmacy. The pharmacy sells prescription drugs at lower-than-average prices to students, even if students donât have an insurance card.

The most popular prescriptions at Campus Health are antibiotics and birth control pills, said Sharon Peppler, chief pharmacist at Campus Health. She said students also commonly pick up decongestants and Motrin.

The pharmacy also has a large over-the-counter section that sells sunscreen, cough and cold medicine, condoms in bulk and many other products you might expect to find at a drugstore.

UA students often visit the acute care center, which is similar to the intensive care unit of a hospital.

During the school year, LeCorgne said she sees a huge number of students with ankle injuries that they suffered playing sports and many students suffering from allergies.

She also sees a lot of students with bad cuts ÷ mostly from wounding themselves with exacto-knives while working on a school project, or else while cutting their morning bagels in half.

UA students also suffer from stress-related injuries, like indigestion and muscle spasms, where tension has built up during long hours of studying, or sleeping, as the case may be.