High school students studying data science in the KEYS Research Internship program helped validate the findings of a study in Lussier’s bioinformatics lab and the Center for Biomedical Informatics and Biostatistics. (Photo: Colleen Kenost)
Dial "D" for Detection. From left: Dr. Esther Freeman, director of global health dermatology at Massachusetts General Hospital; Dr. Dongkyun “DK” Kang, University of Arizona assistant professor; and Dr. Aggrey Semeere, physician research scientist at the Infectious Diseases Institute in Uganda.
Ovarian cancer claims the highest mortality rate of all gynecologic cancers — as high as 70 percent — in part because the disease is rarely detected earlier than stage 3 or 4. When the disease is discovered early in its development, however, survival rates are much better. An effective screening technique for early detection could not only save lives, but also drastically improve their quality.
Physicians in training in internal medicine at the University of Arizona Department of Medicine took first or second place in four out of a possible six categories during academic contests at the 2018 S
TUCSON, Ariz. – The University of Arizona Health Sciences and Banner Health are hosting an open-to-the-public awareness event about the national All of Us Research Program on Thursday, Nov. 15. Food and beverages will be provided to those in attendance. The event is being held to raise awareness of the All of Us Research Program’s ambitious effort to gather data from one million or more people living in the United States to accelerate health research.
Three years ago, the University of Arizona implemented a new budget allocation model called Responsibility Centered Management (RCM). This fall, the UA established a review team to collect university-wide data and feedback about RCM with the goal of identifying potential improvements and modifications moving forward.
Southern Arizonans seeking employment in the medical professions are invited to attend a Banner – University Medicine hiring event from 4 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 13, to learn about hundreds of health-care job openings across Tucson.
Donata Vercelli, MD, associate director of the Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center at the University of Arizona Health Sciences, has been elected the first female secretary general of the Collegium Internationale Allergologicum.
