Three fellows in the Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship won top honors in the competition in Phoenix and will be recognized this weekend at the ACC AZ Chapter Annual Meeting and compete at nationals in Chicago in March.

Several cardiovascular professionals were honored at the Wildcats women’s basketball team’s big win over ASU on Saturday, Feb. 8.

Experimental, three-drug chemotherapy regimen didn’t improve survival rates for patients, but treatment might still prove helpful for a small subset of patients.

With antibiotic resistance on the rise, Michael D. L. Johnson, PhD, is on a mission to discover new ways to neutralize harmful microorganisms.

An international research team co-led by Sarver Heart Center Director Hesham Sadek, MD, PhD, shows that about 25% of patients with artificial hearts can regenerate heart muscle after a heart attack.

Ginny L. Clements and Tom Rogers have each committed gifts of $1 million to the Sarver Heart Center to create a new cardiovascular research institute.

Interventional Pulmonology program director Billie Bixby, MD, Infectious Diseases Fellowship associate program director Monica Hinestroza Jordan, MD, and geriatrician Julia Jernberg, MD, who heads the Ambulatory Clerkship Program, are among five new members picked for local society’s board. See who else from U of A is represented.

Proving a stitch in time saves nine, the associate medical director for the Lung Transplant Program at Banner – University Medical Center Tucson spotted an incorrect measurement on a patient’s donor wait list information. A quick update got them a donor offer soon after.

Parkinson’s disease causes difficulty in movement and balance, but its cognitive symptoms receive less attention and have no good treatments. A College of Medicine – Tucson team hopes to change that.

The Division of Infectious Diseases and U of A GME office signed a five-year letter of agreement with the Hospital Clínico Viedma in Cochabamba, Bolivia, for a four-week elective rotation there led by assistant professor Monica Jordan Hinestroza, MD, this February.