Phoenix hospital joins billionaire doctor’s cancer ‘moonshot’ / Arizona Republic
Phoenix Children’s Hospital will be one of 10 children’s hospitals and institutes participating in billionaire entrepreneur Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Cancer MoonShot 2020’s Pediatric Consortium, an effort to test and rapidly use experimental therapy combinations on hard-to-treat pediatric cancers.
Study hopes to develop early detection test for pancreatic cancer / azfamily.com
Doctors at HonorHealth’s Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center in Scottsdale are conducting a study that will follow patients at high risk of pancreatic cancer to look for common threads that could lead to a test to detect the cancer at its earliest stages.
UA lab studying sweat as way to monitor health / Arizona Daily Star
A lab at the University of Arizona’s Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine is working to develop devices to monitor a subject’s health by measuring biological markers in sweat such as salts, proteins, fats and hormones.
UA medical school wins nod from accreditors / Arizona Republic
The University of Arizona’s medical school in downtown Phoenix secured mid-tier, or provisional, accreditation from an independent body that last year warned the school it needed to make fixes to maintain and advance its accreditation. Read also: Why University of Arizona and Banner Health execs put egos aside