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The benefits of Tai Chi for healthy aging, fall prevention, neurocognitive disorders and cultural considerations for elder American Indians are all topics in this fall’s newly relocated Advances in Aging Lecture Series, now held in Kiewit Auditorium at the UA Cancer Center. They return to the UA Health Sciences campus after four years at the Banner – UMC South hospital’s Behavioral Health Pavilion.
PLEASE NOTE: Due to widespread storms in Southern Arizona resulting from Hurricane Newton, the following event was rescheduled to Wednesday, March 1, 2017—same time, same location. We apologize for any inconvenience.
A member of the National Cancer Institute Head and Neck Cancer Steering Committee and a former Tucsonan, Julie E. Bauman, MD, MPH, joins the UA College of Medicine – Tucson faculty as professor and chief of the Division of Hematology and Oncology in the Department of Medicine and the UA Cancer Center.
Dr. John Galgiani is among three University of Arizona physicians on an Infectious Diseases Society of America panel that authored updated treatment guidelines for the respiratory disease that’s endemic to the U.S. Southwest. The recommendations are for physicians who may not be aware of the disease as well as those whose patients may have contracted it while visiting the region.
Learn CPR from the place that developed chest-compression-only CPR: Sarver Heart Center.
Cancers with a particularly poor prognosis pose a major challenge to health care in the 21st century. New research shows that a highly personalized, patient-directed approach is necessary to improve treatment outcomes.
Study by University of Arizona-led team finds that disruptions in access to sodium permanganate, used in cocaine production, and pseudoephedrine, a methamphetamine precursor chemical, which occurred in 2006 and 2007, were associated with the reductions.
Two University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson programs that bring health care to rural, underserved communities in Arizona are reaching major milestones this year.
Led by Monica Kraft, MD, at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, researchers will use the National Institutes of Health grant to conduct a five-year study, “Dysfunction of Innate Immunity in Asthma,” to investigate the interrelationship of genetic mediators to reduce lung inflammation and attacks in asthma patients.
The grant supports the Southwest Telehealth Resource Center, which provides information and technical assistance to health-care providers in communities throughout Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, Utah and Nevada – including the Navajo Nation – as they set up or expand telehealth programs, reshaping the ways patients engage with medicine.
House dust differences between Amish and Hutterite communities affect immune development and asthma risk, according to study co-authored by University of Arizona Health Sciences researcher Dr. Donata Vercelli published today in the New England Journal of Medicine.
And Best in Tucson Metro Area, says U.S. News & World Report
Comprehensive designation gives Arizonans access to research-driven, highly personalized, cancer care and treatments. The UA Cancer Center is the only NCI-designated comprehensive cancer center headquartered in Arizona and is one of 45 in the nation.
The 22nd annual ceremony marks the students’ entrance into the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson.
The Arizona LEND Program trains professionals to be leaders in clinical care and research. The training program, which seeks to improve the health of children with neurodevelopmental disabilities, trains professionals in more than 15 disciplines.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society “Translational Research Program” grant will advance ongoing haplo-BMT research at the UA Steele Children’s Research Center, and support a UA Cancer Center Phase I/II clinical trial based on UA research findings published recently in the British Journal of Haematology.
Efforts to improve the health of children at increased risk for asthma will receive a major boost with the launch of a new University of Arizona Health Sciences-led, federally funded national clinical study. For Fernando D.
Fourth-year UA medical students Whitney Burns and Jeffrey Robertson, who met during their first week of medical school, were married on April 2. But on Friday, March 18, their excitement was all about Match Day.
The Stethoscope and White Coat Campaign gives each incoming medical student a white coat and stethoscope as they begin pursuing their medical degree. It started in 2012, and look how far we've come:
The University of Arizona has moved Homecoming 2016 to Oct. 27-29, and Family Weekend will now be Oct. 14-16. The changes were made to avoid any conflict with the Veterans Day holiday weekend and plans to honor the men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces.