Health

Frank Porreca, Ph.D., professor of pharmacology at the UA College of Medicine, has received several recent prestigious honors and UA's Dr. Randa Kutob receives prestigious national award.

Researchers at the Arizona Cancer Center have received more than $17 million from the National Cancer Institute to support colon cancer prevention research over the next five years.

Could three injections in the arm protect a woman from developing cervical cancer? That's what researchers at the Arizona Cancer Center are hoping. A new vaccine to prevent cervical cancer by reducing infection with the human papillomavirus (HPV) is being studied in healthy women, ages 18 to 23 years.

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.

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.