TGen supports Arizona Myeloma Network efforts to share knowledge with cancer caregivers, minimizing their stress and improving patient outcomesContinue reading
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Sabga Foundation pledges $1 million towards TGen pancreatic cancer research
Tiny island nation makes big splash in confronting the world’s third leading cause of cancer deathContinue reading
Guest Post: Philips Healthcare’s Trick or Treat
If you have not been scared enough by Halloween, read this consent decree announcement made by the FDA on November 1 to Philips Healthcare concerning quality control issues with their automatic external defibrillator. Philips had “tricked” industry by consistently providing unsafe defibrillators so the FDA “treated” them to a cease and desist order through a mandate from a federal judge. Under this consent decree, Philips must cease manufacturing until corrective action is taken.Continue reading
UA Study on Impact of Delays in Diagnosing Valley Fever Funded by CDC
Dr. Fariba Donovan, an infectious diseases research scientist at the University of Arizona College of Medicine – Tucson, receives contract to examine how the failure to diagnose Valley fever impacts patient health, costs and `antimicrobial stewardship’ of this respiratory infection endemic to the U.S. Southwest.Continue reading
UA Researcher Receives Grant To Study Genetic Risk Factors for Lipedemia
Is It Obesity or Lipedema? UA Researcher Receives Grant To Study Genetic Risk Factors: Yann Klimentidis, PhD, a genetic epidemiologist at the University of Arizona Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, has received funding to study the genetic risk factors for developing lipedema, a painful and body disfiguring condition affecting an estimated 11 percent of U.S. adult women.Continue reading
Founding director of ASU’s Biodesign Institute, Charles Arntzen, retires
From his roots as a fair-haired Minnesota farm boy to climbing the ladder of success in big pharma, to blazing a translational academic research path into life-saving therapies, Charles Arntzen has led one extraordinary life in science.
UA Health Sciences Innovation Building ‘Topping Off’ on Nov. 17th
The ‘topping-off’ ceremony for the new $165 million University of Arizona Health Sciences Innovation Building signals the advancement of team-based health professions education in the United States. Continue reading
Iron Horse Diagnostics receives MDA Venture Philanthropy Grant to Support Development of ALS Biomarkers
Project aims to develop a prognostic test to improve prediction of ALS disease progression Continue reading
AMAG Announces Autologous Cord Blood Cells Improve Motor Function in Some Children with Cerebral Palsy
More than one-third of study participants in Phase 2 Study were Cord Blood Registry® (CBR®) clients.Continue reading