AHSC In The News - Thursday, May 14, 2009

INTERNATIONAL NEWS

Earthtimes - London,UK

• Medical Representative Certification Commission Established to Improve Patient Care, Set National Standards (Lyle Bootman, PhD, ScD, dean, College of Pharmacy and Professor of Pharmacy, Medicine, and Public Health, University of Arizona)

LOCAL NEWS

Arizona Daily Star

• Antivenom for scorpion stings works but lacks FDA approval

• Man struck by SUV southwest of Tucson (flown to University Medical Center)

• Southern Arizonans depend on UPH Hospital, its programs (University of Arizona College of Medicine)

Inside Tucson Business

• UPH to add 19 physician residents in July

Tucson Citizen

• UA research shows benefit of scorpion sting antivenin

OTHER NEWS

• Scorpion Anti-Venom Speeds Children's Recovery (Leslie Boyer, MD, director of the VIPER [Venom Immunochemistry, Pharmacology and Emergency Response] Institute at The University of Arizona College of Medicine)
  Healing Well
  Bio-Medicine
  My Optum Health.com
  MedPage Today - Little Falls,NJ
  Science Codex

BROADCAST NEWS

• Under aged motorcyclist hit on public road (UMC Trauma injury prevention specialist Dan Judkins, RN)
  KGUN