Seniors, health care professionals and others can come learn about the benefits of Tai Chi to healthy aging with Ruth Taylor-Piliae, PhD, RN, FAHA (pictured above), who will speak Monday, Sept. 12, at the newly relocated University of Arizona Center on Aging’s Advances in Aging Lecture Series, which have a new time and locale.
Updated guidelines for treating people infected with Valley Fever, a disease caused by a fungus that is common in the U.S. Southwest, have been produced by a panel of experts led by John N.
Congratulations to the nine faculty physicians within the UA Department of Medicine who recently received promotions.
They include three from the Division of Hematology & Oncology, two from the Division of Nephrology and one each from the divisions of Cardiology, Gastroenterology & Hepatology, Infectious Diseases, and Rheumatology. Four became full professors. Two received tenure.
They are, with their new academic titles:
Do a google search for “turmeric” and Janet Funk, MD’s name and you’ll come up with nearly 16,000 hits stretching back to 2006. On google scholar, you’ll find 30 more, including the paper, “Site-Specific Deglucuronidation of Turmeric-Derived Curcuminoids in Bone,” published in the April 2016 issue of The FASEB Journal.
Beginning Sept. 8, the UA Department of Medicine is sponsoring a new monthly Research Seminar Series to highlight the excellent academic accomplishments of our department.
A 
special Pulmonary Research Conference will be held Monday, Aug.
Banner Health announced that it has acquired 32 Urgent Care Extra locations across the Tucson and Phoenix metro areas that will be rebranded as Banner Urgent Care.
