Medical Marijuana Continuing Medical Education Opportunity
The University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) School of Medicine and the U of A College of Nursing are sponsoring a Continuing Medical Education Conference on April 27–28, at the Loews Ventana Canyon Resort in Tucson. The Conference is called “The Endocannabinoid System: Clinical Implications for Health Care (Course #MMJ12106)”.
Medical Marijuana Cards – Time to Renew
Believe it or not, it’s been almost a year since we started issuing the first medical marijuana cards for qualifying patients and designated caregivers. This week marks the beginning of the first renewal period for the folks that applied for cards at the start of the program. Our medical marijuana webpage has instructions and the link to renew cards. There’s [...]
Guess the Culprit
Guess which organism killed 14,000 people last year- quadrupling in number in the last 10 years, and costing $1B extra in health care. Almost all the cases happen among people who recently received medical care. Ironically, antibiotics are making the problem worse, because when a person takes antibiotics, good germs that protect against infection are destroyed for several months. The [...]
Influenza Wave Coming Ashore
It took longer than usual- but Influenza is finally circulating in AZ- and we’ve moved to the “Regional” flu category now (Regional is sort of the middle of the scale). The circulating strains in AZ (confirmed by our lab) are covered by this year’s vaccine- mostly our old friend the 2009 H1N1 virus and the familiar H3N2 virus. The “Epi Curve” suggests [...]
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Health √
Take a minute to check out the new and improved HealthCheck Programs website. The HealthCheck Programs include the Well Woman HealthCheck Program and Fit at Fifty HealthCheck Program. Both of these programs are primarily federally funded through the CDC and provide uninsured Arizonans with vital access to breast, cervical and colon cancer screening and diagnostics. The new website is a vast improvement from its [...]