HonorHealth to be clinical partner for ASU’s new medical school / Arizona Republic
Arizona State University’s future School of Medicine and Advanced Medical Engineering, which has a targeted opening date of 2026, has formed a clinical partnership with Scottsdale-based HonorHealth.
ASU, Mayo Clinic forge a new health innovation program / Full Circle
The Mayo Clinic and Arizona State University Alliance for Health Care Biomedical Engineering Program, with support from the Flinn Foundation, aims to enhance education and training opportunities for ASU and Mayo Clinic students, advancing pathways for medical entrepreneurship, clinical immersion and community embeddedness.
Phoenix hospital performs historic artificial heart transplant on Tempe resident / KTAR
Banner Health’s University Medical Center Phoenix made history in August, becoming the third hospital in the world to successfully implant the BiVACOR Total Artificial Heart in a human.
Meet Anthony Houston, the new Arizona market president of Dignity Health / Phoenix Business Journal
Anthony Houston, the new Arizona market president for Dignity Health, which operates St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center and other Phoenix-area hospitals, has spent the last 100 days meeting employees and the Phoenix business community.
Scottsdale clinical trial seeks type 2 diabetic children in effort to reduce injections / Arizona’s Family
HonorHealth Research Institute in Scottsdale is seeking participants in a clinical trial to test medication that could help children diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes reduce the number of insulin injections they need from multiple times a day to just once a week.
Whooping cough cases in Arizona are at highest level in 9 years / KJZZ
Whooping cough has been spreading across the U.S. in recent months. And in Arizona, the number of cases is now at the highest level the state has seen in nine years with 491 confirmed cases in 2024.
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