Among stories listed in the AHSC Top Media Mentions for the week of Aug. 31-Sept 4, 2015, were the following:
The White House
Big Grant: UA Researchers Working on Flexible, Wearable Technology
Located in the heart of Silicon Valley, the seventh of nine new manufacturing institutes will invest $171 million in advancing next-generation flexible hybrid electronics manufacturing, fostering American leadership in manufacturing technologies, from smart bandages to self-monitoring weapons systems to wearable devices. The University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine (AzCIM) is part of a group called the FlexTech Alliance, which was awarded $75 million by the U.S. Department of Defense to help establish and maintain a group to create “flexible hybrid electronics,” which include wearable devices to improve medical health monitoring and personal fitness and soft robotics to care for the elderly or assist wounded soldiers, among many other applications. Read more…
Health News Digest
Huge Disparity in Leg Amputations on Low-Income and Rural Patients with Type 2 Diabetes
People with low incomes or living in rural areas who have type 2 diabetes are significantly more likely to suffer the amputation of a lower extremity, largely due to limited access to preventive health care, according to research by the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance (SALSA) at the UA Department of Surgery. The study, "A Diabetic Emergency One Million Feet Long: Disparities and Burdens of Illness among Diabetic Foot Ulcer Cases within Emergency Departments in the United States, 2006-2010," published this month in the journal PLoS One, also found that a system for preventive care for those type 2 diabetes patients could cut national annual health-care costs by billions of dollars. "We know now there are significant disparities in diabetes care, particularly within the lower extremities," said David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, UA professor of surgery and director and co-founder of SALSA. "But the great news about these shocking data is that with a little bit of energy, we can affect change and make a difference for these folks no matter where they live or how big their bank account is.” Read more…
Among other recent media mentions related to the Department of Medicine, its specialties and our clinical facilities were the following:
09/04/2015
Celebrating 30 Years of Total Artificial Heart Procedures (University Medical Center [now Banner University Medical Center – Tucson])
Medical Expo
Is Hot Yoga Safe After 40? (Andrew Weil, MD, founder and director of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine at the UA College of Medicine - Tucson)
MSN
09/03/2015
New Book Demonstrates Power of 'Healing Touch' (University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine)
Broadway World | Benzinga | PRWeb.com
Health Care Bill Touted as a Cure, But at What Cost? (Ali McBride, PharmD, MS, BCPS, BCOP, a clinical coordinator of hematology/oncology at the University of Arizona Cancer Center, in Tucson)
Pharmacy Practice News
09/02/2015
30 Years Ago Michael Drummond Became the 1st Heart Failure Patient to be Successfully Bridged to a Donor Heart Transplant (Dr. Jack Copeland, a cardiac surgeon with then University Medical Center, now Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
KLTV 7 News (Tyler, TX) | PR Newswire
A Banner year for new CEO (Tom Dickson, Banner – University Medical Center Tucson CEO)
Arizona Daily Wildcat
Metastatic Prostate Cancer to the Left Temporal Bone: A Case Report and Review of the Literature (Dr. Abraham Jacob, Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of Arizona College of Medicine)
Uro Today
Leadership with a Legacy: Medtronic’s Gordon Steere to be honored with AZBio’s Pioneer Award for Lifetime Achievement (David S. Alberts, MD, Director Emeritus at the Arizona Cancer Center)
TMCnet.com | Yahoo! Finance
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09/01/2015
Top Doctors: Full list of doctors (Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
Tucson Lifestyle Magazine
Spotlighted from the UA Department of Medicine were:
- Merri Pendergrass, MD, PhD, Director, Adult Diabetes Program at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson
- Thomas Boyer, MD, Director, Liver Research Institute at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson
Adolescent Medicine Allergy & Immunology Cardiac Electrophysiology Cardiovascular Disease Child Neurology Colon & Rectal Surgery Dermatology Diagnostic Radiology Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism Family Medicine Gastroenterology Geriatric Medicine Gynecologic Oncology Hand Surgery Infectious Disease Internal Medicine Interventional Cardiology Maternal & Fetal Medicine Medical Oncology Nephrology Neurological Surgery Neurology Neuroradiology
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Obstetrics & Gynecology Ophthalmology Orthopaedic Surgery Otolaryngology Pathology Pediatric Cardiology Pediatric Endocrinology Pediatric Infectious Disease Pediatric Neurology Pediatric Pulmonology Pediatric Surgery Pediatrics Psychiatry Pulmonary Disease Radiation Oncology Rheumatology Surgery Thoracic and Cardiac Surgery Urology Vascular & Interventional Radiology Vascular Surgery |
Why The United States Is Losing Rural Hospitals (The University of Arizona's Center for Rural Health)
Fronteras: The Changing America Desk
Got diabetes? Why you must protect your feet (David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD, director of the Southern Arizona Limb Salvage Alliance and professor of surgery at the University of Arizona)
Yahoo! News
08/31/2015
Bystander CPR: Addressing the hesitancy (UA Sarver Heart Center)
Naples Herald
NIH Grant Will Support Symic Biomedical’s Development of Therapeutic Agent to Reduce Vascular Access Failures in End-Stage Renal Disease (Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, Division Director of Nephrology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson and Banner - University Medical Center Tucson)
Endovascular Today
HKS Awarded Expansion at Banner – University Medical Center Phoenix (HKS Awarded Expansion at Banner University Medical Center Phoenix)
Medical Construction & Design
Carboplatin Versus Cisplatin in Cervical Cancer (Bradley J. Monk, MD, University of Arizona Cancer Center)
OncLive
08/30/2015
BACC: Rapid Rule Out Protocol Safe for Acute MI Diagnosis (Joseph S. Alpert, MD, Banner - University Medical Center)
TCTMD | Healio
The Healing Power of Food (Dr. Andrew Weil, holistic health expert, author, and founder of the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine)
Journal News
08/29/2015
Moving up: UA alumna Chiasson joins AzCIM as assistant director of fellowship Slide 4 (Dr. Ann Marie Chiasson has joined the University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine [AzCIM] as assistant director of the Fellowship in Integrative Medicine and assistant professor of medicine at the UA College of Medicine – Tucson)
Arizona Daily Star
08/28/2015
See the top recipients of National Institutes of Health grants in Arizona (University of Arizona)
Phoenix Business Journal
7 Things You Shouldn't Touch On A Plane (University of Arizona researchers)
Huffington Post
08/27/2015
Hebrew U's 'liver-on-a-chip' research flags new Tylenol danger (Arizona Poison and Drug Information Center)
The Times of Israel
Symic receives $1.5M NIH Phase II SBIR grant to develop AVF therapeutic candidate (Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, Division Director of Nephrology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson and Banner - University Medical Center Tucson)
News Medical
Arizona Mesothelioma Victims Center Now Urges US Navy Veterans or Industrial Workers with this Rare Cancer in Arizona To Call Them About the Nation's Best Lawyers for Better Compensation (The University of Arizona Cancer Center)
KLTV 7 News
08/26/2015
Tucson's Inaugural Kick Cancer Charity Event kicks off on Thursday (University of Arizona Cancer Research Center)
KVOA Tucson News
Symic Biomedical Awarded $1.5M NIH Phase II SBIR Grant to Develop its Proteoglycan Mimetic (Prabir Roy-Chaudhury, MD, PhD, Division Director of Nephrology at the University of Arizona College of Medicine and Banner University Medical Center, Tucson)
BioSpace.com | PR Newswire | Yahoo! Finance
Biz awards in Southern Arizona: Banner-University Medical Center Tucson has been ranked among the best hospitals in the nation in geriatrics, nephrology and pulmonology in U.S. News & World Report’s 2015-16 Best Hospitals’ ratings (Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
Arizona Daily Star
08/25/2015
Banner aims to cut costs from UAHN as earnings lag (Banner – University Medical Center Tucson)
ModernHealthcare.com
"Tucson Lifestyle ‘Features’ Janardhanan, Yeager among UA Top Doctors in 2016" | Posted: June 29, 2016