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The Arizona Cancer Center invites UA faculty and staff to make a positive difference in your personal life while making a major contribution in the fight against cancer. Better Than Ever is a 3-month program that will train you to complete the newly named Lute & Bobbi Olson Half Marathon on Sunday, Dec. 9.
Surgeons at University Medical Center are performing a new procedure to repair abdominal aortic aneurysms that drastically reduces a patient's recovery time from approximately two months to two weeks.
A recent report by U.S. News & World Report further confirms that heart care at University Medical Center and the University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center is among the best in the nation.
University Medical Center has completed its 600th heart transplant, giving a new heart to a 28-year-old Glendale, Ariz. man. UMC's heart transplant survival rates are 93 percent at one year and 78 percent at five years, ranking it above the national average. "All this can be done because of the donor families," said Dr. Francisco Arab
University Medical Center is among the nation's best hospitals for 10 areas of specialty medical care, according to U.S. News and World Report's annual guide to "America's Best Hospitals."
University Medical Center has established a fund-raising foundation and selected Kent D. Rollins, former president of the Arizona Alumni Association and director of alumni at the University of Arizona, to serve as the UMC Foundation's first president.
Flinn Foundation gift to the AHSC Phoenix Campus to promote greater collaborations between Phoenix and Tucson researchers on a variety of initiatives to promote educational, regulatory and research infrastructure needs.
Reports of potentially fatal blood clots developing during long flights have wrongly placed blame on coach-class seating conditions and not on the underlying medical problems, which are rare, says Dr. Gordon A. Ewy, chief of cardiology at the University of Arizona and director of the UA Sarver Heart Center.
The Arizona Telemedicine Program at the University of Arizona Health Sciences Center recently was recognized as the premier telemedicine program in the nation and beyond.
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