The Pima County Fair will host a joint public outreach effort by Pima County Health and the University of Arizona Petersen HIV Clinics—the latter’s focus being on raising awareness about HIV and AIDS prevention.
According to the National Council on Aging, one-quarter of Americans age 65 and over fall each year. That translates to an older adult seeking treatment in an emergency room for a fall every 11 seconds.
Banner – University Medicine marked its second anniversary recently with release of a video of physicians and staff stating what they’re proud of in the two years since the merger of Banner Health and University of Arizona Health Network created the new UA partne
Do you occasionally miss a lecture or seminar because you weren’t able to easily add it to your smartphone or computer calendar? Never again.
If you haven’t checked out the Events webpage at the UA Department of Medicine website lately, a new tool has been added that enables you to add an event to your personal itinerary via iCalendar, Outlook, Google or Yahoo calendar.
Interested in building or advancing a career in translational science? Join us in Kiewit Auditorium for this panel discussion with some of Arizona’s foremost translational science researchers. Learn about key steps for building your career within various disciplines and institutional settings. After the panel discussion, meet and mingle with the panelists at a reception in the UA Cancer Center lobby afterward.
There was a slight line-up shift with the addition of Dr. Jorge Jaramillo Gomez, Associate Director of the UA Center for Border Health, and absence of Dr. Drew. For additional photos from this event, click on the gallery link below. You can view an archived video of the presentations and Q&A here.
Congratulations to Lucia “Lucy” Contreras, who was the UA Department of Medicine’s representative among nominees for the UA Health Sciences 2017 Awards for Excellence.
TUCSON, Ariz. – Every day, more than 54 million adults in the United States experience the effects of arthritis, the most debilitating disease in society today. More than 1 million adults in Arizona have arthritis, and nearly half report that it limits their activities, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The University of Arizona Arthritis Center wants a future free of the pain of arthritis, but it will take a team effort.
Tuesday night, April 11, was a beautiful thing.
More than 130 high school students, many with parents in tow, came to Banner – University Medical Center South’s La Galería auditorium to hear and learn about the variety of health care jobs offered and how best to prepare themselves for them.
If you tuned in to NPR on Arizona Public Media (AZPM) KUAZ 89.1 FM this morning, April 14, you may have heard Bhaskar Banerjee, MD, a professor of medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, speaking about his efforts to improve endoscopy technology to make colonoscopies more effective and safer at catching and removing pre-cancerous polyps.
