Health

Investigators at the University of Arizona Department of Psychiatry are joining colleagues at more than a dozen other academic medical centers to study the treatment of depression over two and one-half years.

Tara L. McMahon has been appointed director of development for the Arizona Respiratory Sciences Center, a Center of Excellence at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

Patients at high risk for medication problems can receive innovative and valuable help from pharmacists, without increasing overall health-care costs, according to a College of Pharmacy researcher.

Tucson guitarist and composer Chris Burton J

A new pediatric otolaryngolgist (ears, nose and throat), whose research helped to pinpoint the genetic cause of deafness, is now working to further understand the role of genetics in deafness.

Marjorie A. Isenberg, an internationally noted nursing educator, researcher and administrator, has been appointed dean of the University of Arizona College of Nursing, effective Jan. 8, 2001.

The latest equipment in technology-based vision screening for young children was demonstrated Wednesday, Dec. 13, at 655 N. Alvernon Way, Suite 108. Three experts in pediatric eye disease and visual development presented a lecture and demonstration on "New Strategies for Preschool Vision."

Marjorie A. Isenberg, an internationally noted nursing educator, researcher and administrator, has been appointed dean of the University of Arizona College of Nursing.

A machine that assists the function of the liver is being used for the first time in Southern Arizona at University Medical Center. This also is the first time in the country the liver dialysis unit has been used to help support liver functions in a critically ill trauma victim.

Human clinical trials are under way on an innovative peptide-based therapy developed at The University of Arizona College of Medicine that researchers hope will allow people infected with HIV to maintain good health without ever developing the symptoms associated with AIDS.