News Archive: 2016
December 6, 2016
A first-of-its-kind wearable sensor, tested at the El Tour de Tucson endurance cycling event in 2015, measures biomarkers to reveal the body's response to exercise.
December 5, 2016
Dr. Gordon has received a $700,000 NIH grant to create and evaluate a guided imagery program delivered over a telephone quitline and designed to appeal to men and racial and ethnic minorities, who are less likely to use a quitline for help in quitting smoking.
December 5, 2016
On Dec. 14, Lee Ryan, PhD, professor and department chair, UA College of Science, Department of Psychology, and Nancy K. Sweitzer, MD, PhD, professor and chief of cardiology and director of the UA Sarver Heart Center, will present a community lecture, part of Sarver Heart Center’s 30th Anniversary Lecture Series. This talk will focus on heart disease, memory and cognition.
December 3, 2016
With a year-to-date total of 108 kidney transplants, the multidisciplinary team made of surgeons and transplants specialists with the UA Departments of Surgery and Nephrology—as well as numerous others who supported it from nurses, social workers, pharmacists, nutritionists and lab staff—celebrated Nov. 29 the all-time record achievement at the Banner – University Medical Center Tucson…
December 2, 2016
SAVE THE DATE: The UA Department of Medicine will host a “Town Hall Faculty Meeting” on Wed., Dec. 7, 5:15-6:15 p.m., in UAHS 5403 to discuss our role in the White House Precision Medicine Initiative® (PMI). The program is split into an initial presentation followed by breakout into focus groups for further discussion. It will be led by Drs. Monica Kraft, DOM chair, and Akinlolu Ojo, PMI lead principal investigator…
December 2, 2016
The Nov. 27 CBS broadcast spotlighted a Medellin, Colombia, family where every member has been stricken by the neurological disorder. Banner Alzheimer’s Institute research on the family could prove crucial to determining if the disease is preventable. More volunteers are needed, though. View the video and join a registry to help researchers find a cure…
December 1, 2016
UA assistant professor Maggie Pitts, PhD, analyzes how gender affects how people perceive their sexual health responsibilities in an article that appears in the journal Health Communications on what college males thought of the HPV vaccine. Nine focus groups with 84 college-aged males were surveyed in the study four years after the vaccines' approval…
December 1, 2016
The UA Health Sciences’ Center for Sleep and Circadian Sciences will host an “Open House” reception on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at its research clinic which opened this summer at 2033 E. Speedway Blvd., Suite 203. Come learn about the many interdisciplinary collaborations across the UA campus at the new center, which was spun off from the UAHS Asthma & Airway Disease Research Center in May…
December 1, 2016
UA anthropologist David Raichlen, PhD, discovered that the Hadza, an indigenous ethnic group in Tanzania, meet the U.S. government's weekly physical activity recommendations in only two days. His study of this group offers insights for health-care professionals on exercise and reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease…
November 30, 2016
Adding to the work of junior faculty, fellows and resident physicians posted recently, investigators in leadership positions within the UA Department of Medicine posted another 100-plus articles. Topics range from asthma to HIV to kissing bugs to osteoarthritis to lung cancer. Read about some of the advances being made in our understanding of complex diseases and therapies to address them…
November 30, 2016
Adding to the work of junior faculty, fellows and resident physicians posted recently, investigators in leadership positions within the UA Department of Medicine posted another 100-plus articles. Topics range from asthma to HIV to kissing bugs to osteoarthritis to lung cancer. Read about some of the advances being made in our understanding of complex diseases and therapies to address them…
November 30, 2016
Researchers at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health will lead a collaborative research project to develop the framework for a long-term study of cancer in firefighters.
November 28, 2016
Battling childhood obesity and early onset Type 2 diabetes one bite at a time is the theme of the next Endocrinology Grand Rounds lecture Tuesday, Dec. 13, 3-4 p.m., COM Room 5403, with speaker Melanie Hingle, PhD, MPH, RD, a registered dietitian and assistant professor in the Department of Nutritional Sciences at the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences…
November 28, 2016
This study seeks to find answers into the mechanisms that trigger autoimmune disease—diseases that are on the rise in the Western world, and afflict approximately 24 million Americans.
November 21, 2016
Dr. Larry Mandarino will talk about diabetes, muscles and insulin resistance while Dr. Cristine Berry will discuss how low lung function trajectories from the Tucson Children’s Respiratory Study serve as an indicator in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the next DOM Research Seminar, Thursday, Dec. 8, noon-1 p.m., in UAHS 5403…
November 21, 2016
We are not blank slates with regard to how susceptible we are to emerging strains of flu virus, researchers from the University of Arizona and UCLA have discovered. The findings could provide information that could be relevant for the development of a universal flu vaccine.
November 19, 2016
As the inaugural chair of the Department of Medicine at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Phoenix, Michael B. Fallon, MD, FACP, has a clean slate and a clear vision…
November 18, 2016
As of Monday, there were nearly 1,500 people who had not yet gotten a flu shot or their exemption status approved out of nearly 6,500 Banner Health employees at the Banner – UMC Tucson and South hospitals and clinics. Learn about upcoming flu shot clinics and other options to get compliant by Monday, Dec. 5.
November 17, 2016
Dr. John Cunningham isn’t the only UA faculty physician to grab ink in Tucson Lifestyle in 2016. Read about these others who appeared in earlier editions of the magazine this year, including integrative medicine pioneer Dr. Andrew Weil, endocrinologist and nutritionist Dr. Craig Stump, genomics and pulmonology specialist Dr. Ken Ramos and cardiologist and CPR pioneer Dr. Gordon Ewy…
November 17, 2016
John Ehiri, PhD, MPH, MSc, professor and chair of the department of health promotion sciences at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, will conduct HIV prevention research at the University of Lagos College of Medicine in Nigeria.