While antibiotic resistance is on the rise, pharmaceutical companies are making fewer and fewer new antibiotics. UA immunobiologist Michael Johnson says this trend is in urgent need of reversal and believes copper might just be the key.Continue reading
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C-Path President and CEO, Board Director Selected to Serve on Esteemed National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine Committee
C-Path President and CEO Martha Brumfield, PhD, and C-Path Board Director Alastair J. Wood, MD, FRCP, have both been selected to the serve on the National Academy Consensus Committee examining Mutual Recognition Agreements in the Regulation of Medicines under The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Dr. Wood will serve as chair.
Flinn Foundation to fund in-depth bioscience reporting by The Arizona Republic
The Flinn Foundation and The Arizona Republic have entered into a grant-based partnership that will enable the state’s largest media platform to pursue a multimedia initiative to deepen public understanding of the biosciences in Arizona, including research, industry development, and clinical advances.Continue reading
HTG Introduces the HTG EdgeSeq Mouse mRNA Tumor Response Panel
HTG Molecular Diagnostics, Inc. (Nasdaq: HTGM) (HTG), a diagnostic company whose mission is to advance precision medicine, announced it has released a new HTG EdgeSeq Mouse mRNA Tumor Response Panel available now in the United States and Europe. Continue reading
Stryker’s Chairman and CEO Kevin Lobo Named Chairman of AdvaMed Board of Directors
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Advanced Medical Technology Association (AdvaMed) today announced that Stryker’s Chairman and CEO Kevin Lobo has been named chairman of the AdvaMed Board of Directors for a two-year term.
Banner Health experts offer valuable community info about measles
Get the information and watch the video to learn more about vaccines, symptoms, and who is at riskContinue reading
UA Physician and iTether Create App for Pregnant Women, New Moms, with Opioid Addiction
Grant allows for development of new online platform which will be a cell phone app for pregnant women and new moms struggling with opioid addiction is helping them get to doctor appointments on time, chat online with counselors, message their physician and watch videos that teach them about changing their behavior.Continue reading
TGen Physician-In-Chief receives Distinguished Public Service Award from AACR
Dr. Daniel D. Von Hoff, Distinguished Professor and Physician-In-Chief for the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an affiliate of City of Hope, has been selected to receive the 2019 Distinguished Public Service Award from the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR). The AACR is the world’s first and largest professional organization dedicated to advancing cancer research and its mission to prevent and cure cancer.Continue reading
New Patient Tower Opens at Banner – UMC Tucson
Nine-story hospital tower opens to patients April 22; community preview April 7Continue reading