Health

Leslie Ritter, Ph.D., RN, an assistant professor at the University of Arizona College of Nursing in Tucson, is one of 59 researchers nationwide to receive the prestigious Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE).

Arizona Cancer Center researcher Dr. Garth Powis, has received a $6 million Novel Cancer Drug Discovery Grant (NCDDG) from the National Cancer Institute.

The University of Arizona College of Nursing recently was funded as part of a $3.7 million multi-site study by the National Cancer Institute to helping mothers with breast cancer to support their school-age children.

Having automated external defibrillators in casinos and other places with disproportionately high numbers of cardiac arrests would save thousands of lives every year, a University of Arizona Sarver Heart Center doctor writes in tomorrow's New England Journal of Medicine.

The University of Arizona College of Pharmacy and the Arizona Society of Health-System Pharmacists are offering free medication information advice to Arizonans as part of National Pharmacy Week.

Premier heart research unit unveiled its three-story facilty at an Oct. 28 public dedication.

The Rural Health Office of the University of Arizona College of Medicine will kick-off the Southern Arizona Border Health Careers Opportunity Program (SAB-HCOP) on Thursday, Oct. 12, noon - 1 p.m., at the UA Water Resources Research Center, 350 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson.

Dr. Thomas D. Boyer, an expert in the diagnosis and treatment of liver disorders, has been appointed director of the new Arizona Liver Institute at the University of Arizona College of Medicine.

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.