Panel: New health law, its impact on small biz
Small businesses will be able to get some expert guidance about how the Affordable Care Act will affect them at a free panel discussion scheduled for 7:30 a.m. Wednesday at the DoubleTree Hotel – Reid Park, 445 S. Alvernon Way.
Under the law, small businesses will be able to buy health insurance for their employees through a government health-insurance exchange or marketplace beginning Oct. 1.
The event starts with a complimentary breakfast at 7:30 a.m., followed by a panel discussion from 8 to 11 a.m.
The panel, hosted by the Arizona Daily Star’s David Fitzsimmons, will include Pima County Public Health Director Dr. Francisco Garcia and Peter Beahan, a CPA with BeachFleischman PC.
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Foot, ankle expert sets talk at UA Med Center
A free public presentation, titled “Solving Problems of the Foot and Ankle,” is scheduled for 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 4, at the University of Arizona Medical Center – University Campus. The talk is in the Chase Bank Auditorium, 1501 N. Campbell Ave.
Treatment options for foot-and-ankle problems have expanded greatly over the past few years. Newer treatments that preserve motion and allow rapid return to activities will be discussed by keynote speaker Dr. L. Daniel Latt, an assistant professor and director of clinical research in the department of orthopaedic surgery at the UA College of Medicine.
Latt is an expert in the treatment of foot-and-ankle problems, including disorders of cartilage, ligaments and tendons, and the treatment of complex deformities of the lower extremity. He has a special interest in the treatment of ankle arthritis using total ankle replacement. His current research interests include the use of ultrasound in the diagnosis and treatment of tendon problems of the foot and ankle.
The lecture is part of the Living Healthy With Arthritis series of monthly talks presented by the University of Arizona Arthritis Center.
Seating is limited and prior registration is requested. For more information or to register, visit the UA Arthritis Center website www.arthritis.arizona.edu or call 626-5040 or email livinghealthy@arthritis.arizona.edu
If capacity in Chase Bank Auditorium is reached, lectures may be moved to DuVal Auditorium, Room 2600, at the University of Arizona Medical Center – University Campus. Registered attendees will be notified of location changes.
There is a parking fee of $1.50 per hour, cash only, in the hospital visitor/patient parking garage. Free parking is available after 5 p.m. in the UA Zone 1 permit and metered parking lot No. 2030 just south of the parking garage at East Mabel Street and Martin Avenue.
$6M grant to target Indian health issues
Public-health researchers at the University of Arizona, along with researchers at two other higher-education institutions in the state, have received a $6 million federal grant to investigate American Indian health issues.
The UA’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health received $2 million of the grant.
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities awarded the five-year grant to a statewide team of researchers from the UA, Northern Arizona University and the Navajo Nation’s Diné College to establish the Center for American Indian Resilience.
The team will study why some American Indian communities facing high rates of chronic disease and poverty seem to thrive despite adversity.
Nicolette Teufel-Shone, a professor of health promotion sciences at the UA’s Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health and Priscilla Sanderson, assistant professor of health sciences and applied indigenous studies at NAU, will be co-directors of the center.
The research project, directed by the UA, also involves a partnership with the Tucson Indian Center to interview elders about their concept of resilience and perceptions of factors that contribute to success in life.
As part of the project, members of American Indian communities in the Southwest will record video diaries to share their experiences of well-being.
Report: AZ cancer rates slightly below US rate
A new report from the Arizona Department of Health Services found that Arizona cancer rates have consistently been slightly lower than national rates.
Lung cancer causes the greatest number of cancer deaths among both sexes. It kills about 2,600 Arizonans each year. Prostate cancer in males and breast cancer in females caused the second-highest number of cancer deaths, followed by colorectal cancer in both sexes.
Researchers looked at cancer data through 2009. On average, 10,055 people die of cancer in Arizona every year.
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