Health

University Medical Center invites clergy and lay people of all faiths to participate in a volunteer corps of chaplains to minister to the spiritual needs of the hospital's patients, families and staff.

Thermo Finnigan, a Thermo Electron business, has entered into an agreement with the University of Arizona for an exclusive license of a protein identification software enhancement known as "SALSA" (Scoring ALgorithm for Spectral Analysis).

The Arizona Cancer Center is sponsoring a pilot study using ductal lavage, an experimental technique of extracting milk-duct cells, that potentially could be used to identify risks for breast cancer.

G. Marie Swanson, professor in the department of Family Practice and director of the Cancer Center at Michigan State University, has been appointed new dean of the University of Arizona College of Public Health.

Arizona's drag racing community will bring drag racing excitement to University Medical Center's pediatric patients, 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 30.

Future medical breakthroughs may be made possible by the research activities of a select group of high school students and science teachers who participated this summer in the Disadvantaged High School Student Research Program and the K-12 Science Teacher Research Program at the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson.

Back to school also means back to football, and many parents of kids who play the sport worry about injuries. Twenty percent of children participating in sports activities are injured each year and the rate of injury in high school football is seven times higher than any other prep sport.

The Arizona Cancer Center was recently awarded an $8.25 million Survival Signals for Molecular Target Assessment (SSMTA) grant from the National Cancer Institute.

Annual Southwest Regional Trauma Conference, Thursday, Aug. 16, 8:30 a.m. to 4:05 p.m., and Friday, Aug. 17, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., at the Sheraton El Conquistador Resort, 10000 North Oracle Road will gather hundreds of professionals together to help combat this major problem.

A study under way at the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center is looking at a drug that could make it easier to prevent stroke in patients suffering from a common heart rhythm irregularity known as atrial fibrillation.