February 9, 2005

With tens of thousands of students, faculty and staff in close proximity, Arizona's universities are taking steps to prepare for swine flu's next assault.

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1st place: Foothills Sports Medicine

Gilbert’s under-construction hospital is the heart of a planned 40-acre medical campus that also will include a doctors’ offices complex, two oncology centers, a senior assisted living center, hospice facilities and a large, holistic wellness center.

Could you or someone you know benefit from free mental health counseling services?

A.T. Still University doesn’t think that assisted-living centers should be the place where older adults go to retire from life. Instead, the east Mesa university wants to create a place where senior citizens will feel excited about life, and it believes that a dose of youthfulness may be just what the doctor ordered.

August 10, 2004

Let's face it: Even in relatively flush times a few years back, Americans were finding it harder to get medical care. Tens of millions were uninsured, and even some with coverage lacked a regular doctor.

VENTURA, Calif. - Dr. Galen Holmes occasionally works 80-hour weeks with on-call shifts that can keep her in the hospital from 6 a.m. one day to noon the next.

Maricopa County employees will have a preventive health care option next year as part of their health insurance program and can be part of a University of Arizona research study to compare health and cost outcomes of "integrative medical care" with conventional health care.

The University of Arizona formally opens its Phoenix medical school today amid the specter that funds to expand it may not be forthcoming.

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October 26, 2004

Fifty years ago, the doctors of osteopathy who graduated from A.T. Still University struggled to get hospitals to hire them.

The fledgling medical marijuana industry has set its sights on Tempe, flooding the college town with more than 40 requests to set up shop there.

The fledgling medical marijuana industry has set its sights on Tempe, flooding the college town with more than 40 requests to set up shop there.

The fledgling medical marijuana industry has set its sights on Tempe, flooding the college town with more than 40 requests to set up shop there.

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeanne Nollman was a later bloomer.

Claiming these abortions are dangerous, the state House voted Monday to require the same physician oversight of a medical abortion as one performed surgically.

Miller Kaapke is a "miracle child" with congenital heart disease. He has defied doctors after he was pronounced dead, with no pulse for almost a half an hour.

We're becoming a nation of bum knees, worn-out hips and sore shoulders, and it's not just the Medicare set. Baby boomer bones and joints also are taking a pounding, spawning a boom in operations to fix them.