Health

The University of Arizona department of ophthalmology and the Lions Clubs International will dedicate the department's new facility on Thursday, Sept. 21 and kick off a $6 million fund-raising project for macular degeneration research.

If you had taken your mom's advice and gotten up for that 8 a.m. chemistry class in college, you might be a doctor by now. Well it's not too late - sort of. The University of Arizona Health Sciences Center is offering a six-week series of Wednesday-evening lectures on subjects covered in the medical school curriculum.

Improving emergency services for all Arizonans is the goal of 23 paramedics graduating from the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center's paramedic training program on Tuesday, Sept. 12,6 p.m., at University Medical Center DuVal Auditorium.

More than 350 individuals from more that 30 countries will attend the Fourth International Conference on Dietary Assessment Methods Sept. 17 - 20, at the El Conquistador Sheraton Resort in Tucson. The participants plan to identify future research priorities in diet assessment methodology before the end of the conference.

Researchers are banking on an electronic implant now used to stave off epilepsy as a possible treatment for millions suffering from clinical depression.

A University of Arizona College of Medicine program helps foster success for Arizona minority undergraduates who want to become doctors.

Jeanette C. McCray, deputy director of the Arizona Health Sciences Center Library, is this year's recipient of the Estelle Brodman Award for the Academic Medical Librarian of the Year.

Three years after receiving a new heart at University Medical Center, a Flagstaff man will show his gratitude for the second chance by taking part in a seven-week bike ride from Maine to Florida.

A National Institutes of Health (NIH) team will make a two-day site visit to the UA campus on Aug. 29 and 30.

UA researchers have found that children who attended day care during the first six months of life, or had two or more older siblings, were less allergic at ages 6 and 11, and half as likely to develop asthma later in life than children who did not attend day care or had no older siblings.