Among recent news, feature articles and broadcasts on topics of interest to the Department of Medicine or spotlighting our divisions or related staff are the following:
08/19/2015
HAPPENING TODAY: UA Cancer Center's Better Than Ever Program Season 16 Kickoff (UA Cancer Center's Better-Than-Ever Program)
![[Arizona Department of Health Sciences 2015 Report on Valley Fever]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/very_small_image/public/2015_adhs_valley_fever_report.png?itok=yyDjmoWP "Arizona Department of Health Sciences 2015 Report on Valley Fever")
08/18/2015
Health officials warning about Valley Fever (John Galgiani, MD, director, UA Valley Fever Center of Excelence, UA Department of Medicine - Tucson)
[SOURCE: '10 Things to Know about Valley Fever' - CDC]
08/17/2015
DxNA LLC opens Valley Fever multicenter clinical trial (Valley Fever Center for Excellence, UA College of Medicine - Tucson)
EurekAlert (press release)
HEART Series for cardiac health resumes Sept. 8 (Dr. Charles Katzenberg, cardiologist with Banner-University Medical Center and the UA Sarver Heart Center)
2012 Top 75 Copper Queen Community Hospital/bea has a shot (Telemedicine established so doctors here can talk with doctors at Banner - University Medical Center Tucson)
Local fitness fundraiser, in 16th year, boosts cancer research (UA Cancer Center's Better-Than-Ever Program)
08/14/2015
Health Care Bill Touted as a Cure, But at What Cost? (Ali McBride, PharmD, clinical coordinator, hematology/oncology, University of Arizona Cancer Center)
Bryans/Jensens in Tucson Oct 1 for Gootter (UA Sarver Heart Center)
Is It Valley Fever? 8 Symptoms You Should Know (Dr. John Galgiani, director, Valley Fever Center for Excellence, UA College of Medicine - Tucson)
UA, ASU ranked among world's top research universities (UA Health Sciences Center)
Father of slain Sandy Hook girl to speak at ‘Science of Kindness’ conference Aug. 21 (Banner - University Medical Center - Tucson)
08/13/2015
Targeted Next-Generation Sequencing Takes On Growing Role in Pathogen Detection (UA Cancer Center)
The Science of Violence and Compassion (Banner-University Medical Center Tucson)
08/12/2015
Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Request for Comments (Kenneth Ramos, MD, PhD, PharmB, associate vice president, Precision Health Sciences, AHSC)
08/11/2015
19 'Great Hospitals' in the West (Banner-University Medical Center)
Bowling event will help therapeutic ranch (UA Cancer Center & Steele Childrens Research Center)
Development of PROSTVAC immunotherapy in prostate cancer (Department of Medicine, University of Arizona Cancer Center)
![[Dr. Tom Kenyon, from the CDC, discusses lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/drtomkenyon_10148_image2.jpg "Dr. Tom Kenyon, from the CDC, discusses lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak")
08/10/2015
Health officials talk Ebola at Banner University Medical Center (Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
Merger improves hospital rankings at UA (Banner - University Medical Center Tucson)
![[Rendering of new hospital planned in Tucson by Banner Health]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/very_small_image/public/2014_banner_rendering_of_new_hospital_in_tucson.png?itok=1CQ0UTtO "endering of new hospital planned in Tucson by Banner Health")
08/09/2015
Banner to neighbors: 3 years of construction (Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
Ebola: What Are We Learning? (UA College of Medicine - Tucson)
![[AED devices]](https://deptmedicine.arizona.edu/sites/default/files/styles/very_small_image/public/aeds-collage-updated-071823.jpg?itok=mu_u87X- "AED devices")
08/05/2015
How to Use an Automated External Defibrillator (Dr. Larry DeLuca, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the University of Arizona)
Why Oncologists (Doctors Who Treat Tumors) Do Not Like Baking Soda Cancer Treatment (University of Arizona Cancer Center)
08/04/2015
UA surgeons perform dramatic midair rescue, saving Tucson man's life (UA vascular surgery resident Craig Weinkauf, MD, PhD)
‘Ebola: What Are We Learning? In Africa? In America?,’ Aug. 10 (Ron Pust, MD, moderator, director of the Office of Global and Border Health, UA College of Medicine - Tucson)
Intraperitoneal chemotherapy shown to improve survival for patients with advanced ovarian cancer (Michael Bookman, MD, University of Arizona Cancer Center)
08/03/2015
SAVAHCS training future doctors with simulation center (University of Arizona's medical program)
Chronic insomnia sufferers may find relief with half of standard pill (Richard Bootzin from the University of Arizona)
08/01/2015
A Killer on the Loose: Patients at UCLA were becoming deathly ill (Dr. Zachary Rubin received his medical degree from the University of Arizona College of Medicine)
Should government force vaccinations? (University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health)