Health

The Arizona Center on Aging, a Center of Excellence at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center (AHSC), has undergone a change in administrative structure and has announced new leadership.

UA physicians honored; Public Affairs adds new staffer

University Medial Center will open a $2 million Endoscopy Suite in December specializing in high-tech, minimally invasive gastrointestinal and pulmonary tests.

Two hundred and sixty-six women who have completed the Bone, Estrogen, Strength Training (BEST) Study at the University of Arizona College of Medicine will be honored at an end-of-study celebration on Saturday, Nov. 18.

Leslie Ritter, Ph.D., RN, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing in Tucson, is one of 59 researchers nationwide to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Arizona Cancer Center researcher Dr. Garth Powis, has received a $6 million Novel Cancer Drug Discovery Grant (NCDDG) from the National Cancer Institute.

The University of Arizona College of Nursing recently was funded as part of a $3.7 million multi-site study by the National Cancer Institute to helping mothers with breast cancer to support their school-age children.

Having automated external defibrillators in casinos and other places with disproportionately high numbers of cardiac arrests would save thousands of lives every year, a University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center doctor writes in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.

The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and the Arizona Society of Health-System Pharmacists are offering free medication information advice to Arizonans as part of National Pharmacy Week.

Premier heart research unit unveiled its three-story facilty at an Oct. 28 public dedication.