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Browse Health stories - August, 2009

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  • UA Prepared for Return of H1N1 Virus |
    UANews | Campus Health will begin offering seasonal flu vaccinations next month and the H1N1 flu vaccine later this fall.  | |
  • Philanthropic Group to Donate Life-saving AEDs to Schools |
    UANews | The Steven M. Gootter Foundation will donate automated external defibrillators to area high schools who lack the resources to buy their own. |
  • Cardiac Arrest Resuscitation: Passive Oxygen Flow Better than Assisted Ventilation |
    UANews | A UA study compared the numbers of patients who had suffered a cardiac arrest outside a hospital setting and were resuscitated in the field by Emergency Medical Services personnel. |
  • Researchers Show Probiotics are a Promising Treatment for NEC |
    UANews | Researchers have determined that using probiotics, or healthy live bacteria, is an effective method to reduce and prevent a gastrointestinal disease that predominantly affects premature infants. |
  • Future Docs Attend UA White Coat Ceremony |
    UANews | The ceremony marks the entrance to medical school for the UA College of Medicine class of 2013. |
  • Research Team Designing Holographic Imaging System for Ovarian Cancer |
    UANews | UA researchers Jennifer Barton and Ray Kostuk have received a five-year, $2.4 million grant to build the instrument that they hope will one day be used to monitor women at high risk for ovarian cancer. | |
  • UA Resident-Physicians Now Can Pursue an MS or Ph.D in Medical Sciences |
    UANews | The new program provides a timely, convenient way to earn a graduate degree. |
  • Learn Compression-Only CPR, For Free |
    UANews | The UA Sarver Heart Center is offering a free demonstration of Continuous-Chest-Compression CPR on Aug. 5 at 5:30 p.m. |
  • ADVANCE Award Works to Eliminate Gender Inequity and Promote Research |
    UANews | The $3.3-million grant supports the work focused on eliminating gender inequity within the academy while also promoting equity across campus. | |
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